Punjabia pakistanica – Facesoffungi number: FoF

Punjabia pakistanica (Usman & Khalid) Wächter & A. Melzer, comb. nov.

MycoBank number: MB 831957; Index Fungorum number: IF 831957; Facesoffungi number: FoF;

Basionym: Coprinellus pakistanicus Usman & Khalid, Mycokeys 39:53, 2018.

Reference: Hussain et al. (2018).

Remarks:

Distinctly greenish hues are very rare in the family, so far only known in Candolleomyces tuberculatus (Pat.) Wächter & A. Melzer, Psathyrella glaucescens Dennis (both with a greenish pileus), and Coprinopsis piepenbroekorum (Uljé & Bas) Redhead, Vilgalys & Moncalvo (greenish veil).

In Hussain et al. (2018), the drawing (Fig. 6d) shows subcylindrical and utriform cheilocystidia, although lageniform cystidia are mentioned in the description. Perhaps there is an error in the study of Hussain et al. (2018); the authors in the present paper gave priority to the drawing (Fig. 6d).

Fig. 6 Sites of the ITS1 alignment diverging from the majority rule consensus; representation from AliView; colours: nucleotides in AliView colour code; coloured sites differ from the majority rule consensus; grey areas are sites matching the consensus; white are indels or missing data; the scale represents the site numbering