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Abstract
We describe three new species of
Elaphomyces from eastern North America. Of the three,
Elaphomyces loebiae is the rarest, known only from North Carolina and South Carolina, and appears to associate primarily with ectomycorrhizal hardwoods but possibly also with conifers.
Elaphomyces cibulae is widely distributed but disjunct from Florida, Mississippi, and North Carolina.
Elaphomyces cibulae seems to primarily associate with
Quercus species.
Elaphomyces mitchelliae has the widest distribution of the three species, from Florida, Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia, and appears to associate with either ectomycorrhizal hardwoods and/or conifers. In the course of comparing our new
Elaphomyces species to previously described European species we discovered that E. persoonii var. minor is conspecific in all essential details with and thus a synonym of
E. cyanosporus.
Citation
Castellano, M.A.; Elliott, T.F.; Trappe, J.M. 2018. Three new black
Elaphomyces species (
Elaphomycetaceae, Eurotiales, Ascomycota) from eastern North America with notes on selected European species. Fungal Systematics and Evolution. 1(1): 1-12. https://doi.org/10.3114/fuse.2018.01.01.
