Vararia yunnanensis sp. nov. is proposed based on a combination of morphological features and molecular evidence. Vararia yunnanensis is characterized by the resupinate basidiomata with a cracking hymenial surface, a dimitic hyphal system with generative hyphae bearing simple-septa, and colorless,...

This special issue contains 11 articles headed by a tribute to Edith L. Taylor, discussing topics regarding paleobotany, such as a new genus and new species of a Late Devonian Lycopsid, periderm production and periderm occurence in Paleozoic plants, conifer diversity in Middle Triassic, pollen...

During the screening of Korean microflora, a fungal strain (KNU-PT-1804) belonging to the genus Pestalotiopsis was isolated from persimmon tree (Diospyros kaki) bark collected from North Gyeongsang Province, Korea. The strain, KNU-PT-1804, produced smaller conidia compared with related species P....

Female reproductive structures of Umaltolepis are recorded in the Huhteeg (= Khukhtyk or Khukhteeg) Formation (Aptian-Albian) of the Baganuur coal mine (Central Mongolia) for the first time. These structures, preserved as dispersed cupules, are very similar to U. mongoliensis from the Tevshiin Govi ...

Lithocarpus cadamensis Ngoc & Son, a new species of Fagaceae, is described and illustrated from Mt. Ca Dam, Tra Bong District, Quang Ngai Province, central Vietnam. The new species is characterized by its large leaf blades with long petioles, solitary and subsessile cupules which almost completely...

Shoots of cheirolepidiaceous conifers assigned to the fossil genus Frenelopsis are very common in Portuguese Early Cretaceous mesofossil floras. In this study, a new cheirolepidiaceous conifer Frenelopsis antunesii is described from the Lower Cretaceous (upper Aptian -lower Albian) of Figueira da...

Premise: The mahogany family (Meliaceae) is an angiosperm lineage comprising many species that are important elements in tropical ecosystems, and is often used as a study system to understand the evolution of tropical rainforests. While divergence time studies have estimated a Cretaceous origin for ...

This review of Neotropical Burseraceae emphasizes developments since the last major review of the family in 2011. The Burseraceae comprise a Laurasian group (represented by Eocene fossils in the Northern Hemisphere) that originally dispersed through Central America into Amazonia. During cooling and ...

Massaria species are well-known in temperate regions in contrast to tropical regions. Taxonomy and phylogeny of two new Massaria species are carried out in this study as a part of our major research interests in microfungal diversity and distribution in Asia. In 2018-2019, we collected two fungal...

Szczepkamyces, typified by Szczepkamyces campestris, was a monotypic genus. Based on distinct morphological characters and phylogeny inferred from the combined 2-locus dataset [ITS1-5.8S-ITS2 (ITS) + nuclear large subunit RNA (nLSU)], another species of the genus, Szczepkamyces quercicola sp. nov., ...