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Citation for Study 13998

About Citation title: "Morchella australiana sp. nov., an apparent Australian endemic from New South Wales and Victoria".
About Study name: "Morchella australiana sp. nov., an apparent Australian endemic from New South Wales and Victoria".
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Citation

Elliott T., Bougher N., O'donnell K., & Trappe J. 2013. Morchella australiana sp. nov., an apparent Australian endemic from New South Wales and Victoria. Mycologia, .

Authors

  • Elliott T.
  • Bougher N.
  • O'donnell K. Phone 309-681-6383
  • Trappe J.

Abstract

An abundant fruiting of a black morel was encountered in temperate northwestern New South Wales (NSW), Australia during a mycological survey in August 2010. The collection site was west of the Great Dividing Range in a young, dry sclerophyll woodland forest dominated by Eucalyptus and Callitris north of Coonabarabran in an area known as the Pilliga Scrub. Although the Pilliga Scrub is characterized by frequent and often large, intense wildfires, the site showed no sign of recent fire, which suggests this species is not a post-fire morel. Caps of the Morchella elata-like morel were brown with blackish ridges supported by a pubescent stipe that became brown at maturity. Because no morel has been described as native to Australia, the collections were subjected to multilocus molecular phylogenetic and morphological analyses to assess its identity. Results of these analyses indicated our collection, together with previous collections from NSW and Victoria, represented a novel, genealogically exclusive lineage, which is described and illustrated here as Morchella australiana Elliott et al. sp. nov.

Keywords

Ascomycota, Callitris, Eucalyptus, Morchellaceae, Morels, Pezizales, Western Australia

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