Taxonomic studies of bluish Mycena (Mycenaceae, Agaricales) with two new species from northern China

• DOI: 10.3897/mycokeys.90.78880
• Publication Date: 2022-06-17T13:19:13Z
• Authors: Qin Na; Zewei Liu; Hui Zeng; Binrong Ke; Zhizhong Song; Xianhao Cheng; Yupeng Ge
• Keywords: Agaricales; Herbarium; Pileus

Bluish Mycena are rare, but constitute a taxonomically complex group. A total of eight bluish species in four sections have previously been reported from North America, Europe, Oceania and Asia. Two with blue pileus, collected China during our taxonomic study s.l., described here as new to science: caeruleogrisea sp. nov. M. caeruleomarginata Detailed descriptions, line drawings morphological comparison closely-related species, especially herbarium specimens subcaerulea the USA, provided. The results Bayesian Inference Maximum Likelihood phylogenetic analyses dataset 96 nuclear rDNA ITS 20 nLSU sequences 43 also presented. data support introduction species. key Amictae , Cyanocephalae Sacchariferae Viscipelles is