Corresponding author: Aniket Ghosh ( ghosh.aniket87@gmail.com ) Academic editor: Ajay Kumar Gautam © Dyutiparna Chakraborty, Matteo Gelardi, Manoj Emanuel Hembrom, Aniket Ghosh. 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:
Chakraborty D, Gelardi M, Hembrom ME, Ghosh A (2022) First records of Tylopilus glutinosus Iqbal Hosen (Boletaceae) from Shorea robusta-dominated forests in tropical India: morphological description and phylogenetic estimation. Check List 18(3): 553-562. https://doi.org/10.15560/18.3.553 |
During the routine survey for exploring the hidden macrofungal wealth of tropical Sal (Shorea robusta Roth) forests in West Bengal and Jharkhand (India), we found a specimen similar to Tylopilus plumbeoviolaceous (Snell & E.A.Dick) Snell & E.A.Dick. After careful morphological observations and phylogenetic analysis, the species was found to be conspecific with Tylopilus glutinosus Iqbal Hosen, a recently established taxon from Bangladesh. We report T. glutinosus for the first time from India and provide a detailed description, figures, a multigene phylogenetic analysis, and comprehensive comparisons with similar species. A distributional map is also provided.