Australasian truffle-like Fungi. IV.* Malajczukia gen. nov. (Basidiomycotina, Mesophelliaceae)

Abstract

Malajczukia, a new genus of truffle-like fungi, is described along with six new species (M. amicorum, M. fusispora, M. karrialis, M. spumoidea, M. tropica and M. viridigleba) and two new combinations (M. ingratissima and M. novae-zelandiae). Malajczukia has the central glebal core separated from the peridial endocutis by radiate rows of narrow locules instead of by the capillitium and powdery spore mass that characterise the closely related genus Mesophellia. All have veins or nests of large, inflated cells in the central core, a feature absent in Mesophellia.

* Part III, Aust. Syst. Bot., 1992, 5, 613–16.