Phylloporus gajari, a new species of the family Boletaceae from Bangladesh

Abstract

Phylloporus gajari, a new species, based on morphological and molecular data, is described and illustrated from tropical Asian forests dominated by Shorea robusta. It is morphologically circumscribed by its reddish brown to yellowish brown, sub-tomentose and rimose pileus when mature, sub-crowded cyanescent lamellae, red to reddish brown stipe, bacillate basidiospores, and habitat in forests dominated by Shorea robusta. Molecular phylogenetic analysis using the nuclear ribosomal large subunit RNA also supports the new species in Boletaceae. We compare it with phenotypically similar and molecular phylogenetically allied taxa.