Discovery of a new species of the hitherto monotypic genus Nothocybe Matheny & K. P. D. Latha from tropical India

This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Deepna Latha, K. P., Anil Raj, K. N., Manimohan, Patinjareveettil (2026): Discovery of a new species of the hitherto monotypic genus Nothocybe Matheny & K. P. D. Latha from tropical India. Cryptogamie, Mycologie 47 (2): 11-21, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2026v47a2, URL: doi.org/10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2026v47a2 ABSTRACT A new species of Nothocybe Matheny & K.P.D. Latha, N. vanadurgae Manim. & K.P.D. Latha, sp. nov., is described from Kerala State, India, based on morphology and molecular phylogeny.

The diagnostic characters of this species include small basidiocarps with a fibrillose-squamulose pileus, a fibrillose-pruinose stipe with a marginate-bulbous base, smooth basidiospores occasionally with a slight angularity, a sterile lamella-edge with cheilocystidia occasionally with a resinous substance at the apex and copious caulocystidia with a resinous coating at the apex. A phylogenetic analysis based on a concatenated dataset of nrITS, nrLSU and rpb 2 confirmed the taxonomic position of this species within the genus Nothocybe of the family Inocybaceae.