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Paralpova

Paralpova Cabero & P. Alvarado 2020, in Alvarado et al., Mycologia, 113(4), 828-841 (2021).

            Etymology: Paralpova, the prefix para- (Greek) meaning “beside” in reference to the phylogenetic placement of this genus as sister to Alpova.

Diagnosis: Sequestrate hypogeous fungi with a remarkable odor, gleba with gel-filled chambers when mature, bilayered peridium (prosenchymatic peridiopellis and pseudoparenchymatic subpellis), monosporic (rarely bisporic) basidia, ellipsoid or fusiform spores >15 μm. Associated with Fagus sylvatica

Index Fungorum Number: IF833076

Type species: Paralpova artikutzensis Cabero, D. Moreno-Mateos & P. Alvarado 2020, in Alvarado et al., Mycologia, 113(4), 828-841 (2021).

Species:

Paralpova artikutzensis Cabero, D. Moreno-Mateos & P. Alvarado 2020

Reference:

Alvarado, P., Cabero, J., Moreno-Mateos, D., Vizzini, A., Alonso, J., Lebeuf, R., ... & Vidal, J. M. (2021). Phylogenetic relationships among false truffle genera of Paxillaceae—Alpova, Melanogaster, Neoalpova, and Paralpova, gen. nov. Mycologia, 113(4), 828-841.

 

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