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Rossbeevera

Rossbeevera is a genus of sequestrate (truffle-like) fungi in the family Boletaceae. It was first published in 2012 under the erroneous name Rosbeeva, but was corrected to Rossbeevera in the same issue. The genus was created to contain species formerly placed in Chamonixia, but characterized by having ellipsoid to spindle-shaped spores with 3–5 longitudinal ridges, bluish-green to deep blue fruit body staining reaction, and a thin whitish peridium. The Chinese species R. yunnanensis is the earliest diverging lineage within the genus, and has a close phylogenetic relationship with the bolete genera Turmalinea and Leccinellum.

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Rossbeevera
Sectioned Rossbeevera fruit body found in New South Wales, Australia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricomycetes
Order: Boletales
Family: Boletaceae
Genus: Rossbeevera
T.Lebel & Orihara (2012)
Type species
Rossbeevera pachyderma
(Zeller & C.W.Dodge) T.Lebel (2012)
Species

Rossbeevera is a genus of sequestrate (truffle-like) fungi in the family Boletaceae. It was first published in 2012 under the erroneous name Rosbeeva,1 but was corrected to Rossbeevera in the same issue.2 The genus was created to contain species formerly placed in Chamonixia, but characterized by having ellipsoid to spindle-shaped spores with 3–5 longitudinal ridges, bluish-green to deep blue fruit body staining reaction, and a thin whitish peridium. The Chinese species R. yunnanensis is the earliest diverging lineage within the genus, and has a close phylogenetic relationship with the bolete genera Turmalinea and Leccinellum.34

The genus name Rossbeevera honours Ross Beever (1946–2010), a New Zealand botanist and mycologist.5

Species

As of April 2023, Index Fungorum lists the following species in Rossbeevera:

Image Name Taxon Author Year
Rossbeevera bispora (B.C. Zhang & Y.N. Yu) T. Lebel & Orihara 2012
Rossbeevera cryptocyanea Orihara 2016
Rossbeevera eucyanea Orihara 2012
Rossbeevera griseobrunnea Iqbal Hosen & T.H. Li 2019
Rossbeevera griseovelutina Orihara 2012
Rossbeevera mucosa (Petri) T. Lebel, Orihara & N. Maek. 2012
Rossbeevera paracyanea Orihara 2015
Rossbeevera vittatispora (G.W. Beaton, Pegler & T.W.K. Young) T. Lebel 2012
Rossbeevera westraliensis T. Lebel, Orihara & N. Maek. 2012
Rossbeevera yunnanensis Orihara & M.E. Sm. 2012
References

References

  1. Lebel T, Orihara T, Maekawa N (2012). "The sequestrate genus Rosbeeva T. Lebel & Orihara gen. nov. (Boletaceae) from Australasia and Japan: new species and new combinations". Fungal Diversity. 52: 49–71. doi:10.1007/s13225-011-0109-x.
  2. Lebel T, Orihara T, Maekawa N (2012). "Erratum to: The sequestrate genus Rossbeevera T. Lebel & Orihara gen. nov. (Boletaceae) from Australasia and Japan: new species and new combinations". Fungal Diversity. 52: 73. doi:10.1007/s13225-011-0118-9.
  3. Orihara T, Smith ME, Ge ZW, Maekawa N (2012). "Rossbeevera yunnanensis (Boletaceae, Boletales), a new sequestrate species from southern China". Mycotaxon. 120: 139–147. doi:10.5248/120.139.
  4. Hosen MI, Zhong XJ, Gates G, Orihara T, Li TH (2019). "Type studies of Rossbeevera bispora, and a new species of Rossbeevera from south China". MycoKeys (51): 15–28. doi:10.3897/mycokeys.51.32775. PMC 6477848. PMID 31048985.
  5. Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8.
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