@ARTICLE{TreeBASE2Ref19265,
author = {Alfredo Justo and Alfredo Vizzini and Andrew M Minnis and Nelson Menolli Jr and Marina Capelari and Olivia Rodriguez and Ekaterina Malysheva and Marco Contu and Stefano Ghignone and David S. Hibbett},
title = {Phylogeny of the Pluteaceae (Agaricales, Basidiomycota): Taxonomy and Character Evolution},
year = {2010},
keywords = {},
doi = {10.1016/j.funbio.2010.09.012 },
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.funbio.2010.09.012 },
pmid = {},
journal = {Fungal Biology},
volume = {},
number = {},
pages = {},
abstract = {The phylogeny of the genera traditionally classified in the family Pluteaceae (Agaricales,
Basidiomycota) was investigated using molecular data from nuclear ribosomal genes
(nSSU, ITS, nLSU) and consequences for taxonomy and character evolution were evaluated.
The genus Volvariella is polyphyletic, as most of its representatives fall outside the Pluteoid
clade and shows affinities to some hygrophoroid genera (Camarophyllus, Cantharocybe).
Volvariella gloiocephala and allies are placed in a different clade, which represents the sister
group of Pluteus, and a new generic name, Volvopluteus, is proposed to accommodate these
taxa. Characters such as basidiospore size and pileipellis structure can be used to separate
Pluteus, Volvariella and Volvopluteus. The genus Pluteus is monophyletic and includes species
with partial veil traditionally classified in the genus Chamaeota. The evolution of morphological
features used in the infrageneric taxonomy of the genus, such as metuloid cystidia
and pileipellis structure, was analyzed. Agreement between the molecular phylogeny and
morphological subdivision of Pluteus is, generally speaking, good, though some rearrangements
are necessary: (i) species with non-metuloid pleurocystidia and pileipellis as a cutis
are placed either in sect. Celluloderma, together with the species characterized by a hymenidermal
pipeipellis, or in sect. Pluteus, with the metuloid bearing species; (ii) subdivision of
sect. Celluloderma according to the presence/absence of cystidioid elements in the pileipellis
is not supported by molecular data}
}