International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms

ISSN for PRINT: 1521-9437

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2002, Volume4

Issue 4

112 pages

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Marina Ya. Didukh
International Center for Cryptogamic Plants and Fungi, Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Haifa 31905, Israel; M. G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 2 Tereshchenkovskaya Str., Kiev, 01601, Ukraine

Paul Stamets
University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California; Fungi Perfecti Research Laboratories, SE 50 Nelson Rd., Kamilche Pt., WA 98584, USA

Solomon P. Wasser
International Centre for Cryptogamic Plants and Fungi, Institute of Evolution, University of Haifa, Mt. Carmel, Haifa, Israel; and N.G. Kholodny Institute of Botany, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

Maria Angela L. de Amazonas
Centro Nacional de Pesquisa de Florestas, Embrapa Florestas, C.P. 319, 83411-000 Colombo, Parana, Brazil

Augusto F. da Eira
Departamento de Produção Vegetal (Modulo de Cogumelos), FCA/UNESP, C.P. 237, CEP 18603-970 Botucatu, SP, Brazil

One of the utmost important edible and culinary-medicinal biotechnological species, Royal Sun Agaricus, known as Agaricus blazei, is revaluated. Analysis of data on this culinary-medicinal mushroom originating from Brazil, and widely cultivated nowadays, showed that it is not A. blazei Murrill, but a species identical with A. blazei Murrill ss. Heinem. On the basis of existing differences the widely cultivated species, currently known as A blazei ss. Heinem., is described as Agaricus brasiliensis sp. nov. A description of this new species, as well as data considering the extent of its relatedness to true A. blazei and its taxonomic position in the genvis Agaricus, are given.

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