Panellus P. Karst. 1879
Creators: name: Chen, Qian
name: Xu, Zhen-Zhen
name: Zhang, Qiu-Yue
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Agaricales
Mycenaceae
Panellus

description: Key to 14 species of Panellus found in China
1. Basidiomata with lamellate hymenophore .........................................................................................................................................2
1. Basidiomata with poroid hymenophore..............................................................................................................................................7
2. Having bright white and bright light brown gloss at lamellar edge ......................................................................................... P. mitis
2. Not having any gloss at lamellar edge................................................................................................................................................3
3. Pileus usually> 20 mm ...................................................................................................................................................... P. opuntine
3. Pileus usually <20 mm ......................................................................................................................................................................4
4. Pileal surface purple-brown................................................................................................................................................................5
4. Pileal surface white, tawny to brown .................................................................................................................................................6
5. Pileal surface with yellow crystal, and smaller basidiospores 5.2–7.3 × 1.7–2.0 µm.......................................................... P. ringens
5. Pileal surface without yellow crystal, and larger basidiospores 8.0–10.5 × 3.5–4.3 µm .......................................... P. violaceofulvus
6. Pileal surface white......................................................................................................................... P. stipticus var. albidotomentosus
6. Pileal surface tawny to brown ....................................................................................................................... P. stipticus var. stipticus
7. Basidiospores mostly> 6 μm in width, subglobose to globose .........................................................................................................8
7. Basidiospores mostly <6 μm in width, ellipsoid to cylindrical.......................................................................................................10
8. Pores 2–4 per mm............................................................................................................................................................. P. palmicola
8. Pores 4–6 per mm...............................................................................................................................................................................9
9. Stipe up to 3 mm in length; cheilocystidia pyriform................................................................................................. P. longistipitatus
9. Stipe up to 1.3 mm in length; cheilocystidia tubular or narrowly clavate..................................................................... P. crassiporus
10. Basidiomata gelatinous, pileus up to 1.5 mm in the largest dimension, basidiospores mostly> 6 μm in length ............................11
10. Basidiomata chalky, basidiospores mostly <6 μm in length ...........................................................................................................12
11. Stipe present ................................................................................................................................................................ P. bambusicola
11. Stipe absent.......................................................................................................................................................................................13
12. Pores 6–7 per mm; pleurocystidia absent..................................................................................................................... P. yunnanensis
12. Pores 8–10 per mm; pleurocystidia present................................................................................................................. P. minutissimus
13. Pleurocystidia and pileocystidia present .............................................................................................................................. P. alpinus
13. Pleurocystidia or pileocystidia absent ................................................................................................................................. P. pusillus
description: Published as part of Chen, Qian, Xu, Zhen-Zhen & Zhang, Qiu-Yue, 2023, Panellus microspermus sp. nov. (Agaricales, Basidiomycota) evidenced by the morphological characters and molecular phylogeny, pp. 16-28 in Phytotaxa 606 (1) on page 25, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.606.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/8202281