Check List 19(5): 727-733, doi: 10.15560/19.5.727
Confirmed presence of Clathrus columnatus Bosc (Phallales, Clathraceae) in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador
Justine Villalba-Alemán‡, Paúl Mayorga‡, C. Miguel Pinto‡, Patricia Jaramillo Díaz‡§‡ Charles Darwin Foundation, Puerto Ayora, Ecuador§ Universidad de Málaga, Málaga, Spain
Corresponding author: Justine Villalba-Alemán ( jusvillalba@gmail.com ) Corresponding author: Patricia Jaramillo Díaz ( patricia.jaramillo@fcdarwin.org.ec ) Academic editor: Renan Barbosa © Justine Villalba-Alemán, Paúl Mayorga, C. Miguel Pinto, Patricia Jaramillo Díaz. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Villalba-Alemán J, Mayorga P, Pinto CM, Jaramillo Díaz P (2023) Confirmed presence of Clathrus columnatus Bosc (Phallales, Clathraceae) in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador. Check List 19(5): 727-733. https://doi.org/10.15560/19.5.727 |  |
Abstract
In July 2022, we collected three groups of Clathrus columnatus Bosc (Clathraceae) specimens (four mature and eight immature basidiomata) from Santa Cruz Island, Galapagos. We report these specimens as the first confirmed records of this species from the Galapagos Archipelago and Ecuador. We hypothesize that C. columnatus constitutes a recent introduction to the islands. We provide macro- and microscopic descriptions, including photographs of fresh and fluid-preserved basidiomata, and comments on the species’ taxonomy, ecology, and distribution.
Keywords
Basidiomycota, citizen science, clathroids, gasteroid fungi, introduced species, new record