Gliophorus flavoviridis, a new species in the family Hygrophoraceae from India

Gliophorus flavoviridis (sect. Gliophorus) a new species and lookalike of European G. psittacinus is described and illustrated from Indian Himalaya based on the morphological characters and phylogenetic inference. This species is mainly characterized by a yellowish green slightly viscid pileus with a translucent-striate, crisped margin, yellowish sinuate lamellae with various lengths of lamellulae, broadly ellipsoid to ellipsoid basidiospores, basal non-toruloid clamp connections on basidia, an ixotrichoderm type of pileipellis and stipitipellis, and an absence of ixocheilocystidia.

The present communication deals with the morphology and nrITS-based phylogeny of this undescribed species. Allied taxa are duly compared.