taxonID	type	description	language	source
03D4E5075325FFCEFF56FE373864D7C5.taxon	description	MycoBank: MB 849111	en	Nayana, P. K., Ck, Pradeep (2023): A new species of Candolleomyces (Psathyrellaceae, Agaricales) from Western Ghats, India. Phytotaxa 606 (1): 63-72, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.606.1.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.606.1.6
03D4E5075325FFCEFF56FE373864D7C5.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis: — It can be distinguished from the closely related Candolleomyces thailandensis by the small, pale ellipsoid to elongate basidiospores (6 – 6.4 × 3.6 – 4 µm) with an indistinct germ pore, polymorphic cheilocystidia and caulocystidia, lignicolous habitat, and a distinctive nrITS sequence.	en	Nayana, P. K., Ck, Pradeep (2023): A new species of Candolleomyces (Psathyrellaceae, Agaricales) from Western Ghats, India. Phytotaxa 606 (1): 63-72, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.606.1.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.606.1.6
03D4E5075325FFCEFF56FE373864D7C5.taxon	materials_examined	Holotype: — INDIA. Kerala State: Thiruvananthapuram district, Palode, JNTBGRI campus, 8.75 ° N, 77.02 ° E, elev. 150 m, 16 June 2021, Nayana TBGT (M) 18600!. GenBank: OQ 676550 (ITS).	en	Nayana, P. K., Ck, Pradeep (2023): A new species of Candolleomyces (Psathyrellaceae, Agaricales) from Western Ghats, India. Phytotaxa 606 (1): 63-72, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.606.1.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.606.1.6
03D4E5075325FFCEFF56FE373864D7C5.taxon	etymology	Etymology: — albosquamosus, refers to the white floccose velar squamules on the pileus	en	Nayana, P. K., Ck, Pradeep (2023): A new species of Candolleomyces (Psathyrellaceae, Agaricales) from Western Ghats, India. Phytotaxa 606 (1): 63-72, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.606.1.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.606.1.6
03D4E5075325FFCEFF56FE373864D7C5.taxon	description	Description: — Basidiomata small, up to 58 mm high, thin, fragile. Pileus 12.0 – 38.5 mm diam., parabolic in buds, becoming hemispherical, campanulate, convex to broadly convex at maturity; surface honey yellow (5 D 6), light brown (5 D 4, 5 D 5), yellowish brown (5 C 5), mustard brown (5 E 6) finally brownish gray / brownish beige (6 D 2,6 E 3) with age, paler at margin, strongly hygrophanous, with white, minute floccose, evanescent velar squamules scattered throughout, pellucid striate up to the disc, dry, micaceous; margin straight, irregular, appendiculate. Lamellae adnexed, yellowish white in buds becoming brownish gray to brown (4 A 2,4 C 2,6 C 2,6 D 3,6 E 4,7 E 4) when mature, up to 3.5 mm wide, crowded with lamellulae of 3 – 4 lengths; edge concolorous to the sides, minutely fimbriate. Stipe 11 – 57 × 1.5 – 4.0 mm, central, cylindric, equal or slightly tapering upward, slightly compressed towards the base in some specimens, curved, hollow, brittle; surface white, pruinose at apex, floccose to squamulose in the lower half; base with white strigose hairs and white mycelial mat. Context thin, concolorous to pileus, up to 1 mm, soft, brittle. Odor mild. Spore sprint brown (7 E 4). Basidiospores 6.0 – 6.4 × 3.6 – 4.0 µm (avL = 6.16 µm, avW = 3.86 µm), Q = 1.5 – 1.7 (Qm = 1.575), ellipsoid to elongate, grayish orange in water, nearly hyaline in 3 % aqueous KOH, thick-walled, smooth, with an indistinct germ pore and minute hilar appendix. Basidia 14 – 20 × 6.0 – 7.2 µm, clavate, 4 - spored, thin-walled, hyaline. Lamella edge sterile with cheilocystidia and paracystidia. Cheilocystidia crowded, abundant, 24.0 – 36.8 × 12 – 18 µm, polymorphic, clavate, utriform to broadly utriform, oblong, rarely lageniform with obtuse apex, rarely capitate, thin-walled, hyaline. Paracystidia abundant, 12 – 20 × 8 – 12 µm, globose, subglobose to clavate, thin-walled, hyaline. Pleurocystidia absent. Hymenophoral trama regular, hyphae 2 – 46 µm broad, inflated, thin-walled, hyaline, encrusted, slightly constricted at septa. Subhymenium pseudoparenchymatous. Pileal trama composed of thin-walled, hyaline, branched, encrusted, inflated, 2 – 38 µm broad hyphae constricted at septa. Pileipellis a 2 – 3 layered epithelium composed of globose to subglobose cells, 21.2 – 50.0 × 15.2 – 46.0 µm, thin-walled, hyaline. Stipitipellis composed of thin-walled, hyaline, 4 – 24 µm broad encrusted hyphae. Stipe with caulocystidia at the apex along with paracystidia. Caulocystidia scattered in groups, abundant, 19.2 – 54.0 × 8 – 16 µm, polymorphic, flexuous, lageniform, utriform, broadly utriform with obtuse, rarely rostrate to capitate apex, thin-walled, hyaline. Paracystidia scattered, moderately abundant, 10 – 24 × 8 – 12 µm, subglobose to clavate, thin-walled, hyaline. Velar squamules composed of thin-walled, hyaline, branched, encrusted, 2.8 – 20.0 µm broad hyphae. Clamp connections and oleiferous hyphae present in all tissues.	en	Nayana, P. K., Ck, Pradeep (2023): A new species of Candolleomyces (Psathyrellaceae, Agaricales) from Western Ghats, India. Phytotaxa 606 (1): 63-72, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.606.1.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.606.1.6
03D4E5075325FFCEFF56FE373864D7C5.taxon	biology_ecology	Habit, habitat and phenology: — Solitary, paired, scattered, rarely caespitose, usually on dead bamboo culms, sticks and rarely on angiosperm twigs in tropical forest, Kerala State, India. June – December.	en	Nayana, P. K., Ck, Pradeep (2023): A new species of Candolleomyces (Psathyrellaceae, Agaricales) from Western Ghats, India. Phytotaxa 606 (1): 63-72, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.606.1.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.606.1.6
03D4E5075325FFCEFF56FE373864D7C5.taxon	materials_examined	Additional specimens examined: — India, Kerala State, Thiruvananthapuram district, Palode, JNTBGRI campus: 5 August 2020, Nayana TBGT (M) 18234; ibid., 8 September, 2020 Nayana TBGT (M) 18277; ibid., 15 September 2020, Nayana TBGT (M) 18296; ibid., 23 September 2020, Nayana TBGT (M) 18334; ibid., 24 September 2020, Nayana TBGT (M) 18340; ibid., 27 September 2020, Nayana TBGT (M) 18347; ibid., 27 September 2020, Nayana TBGT (M) 18353; ibid., 18 October 2020, Nayana TBGT (M) 18424; ibid., 20 November 2020, Nayana TBGT (M) 18431; ibid., 9 December 2020, Nayana TBGT (M) 18444; ibid., 10 December 2020, Nayana TBGT (M) 18448; ibid., 8 June 2021, Nayana TBGT (M) 18590; ibid., 12 June 2021, Nayana TBGT (M) 18595; ibid., 21 June 2021, Nayana TBGT (M) 18605; ibid., 29 June 2021, Nayana TBGT (M) 18612; ibid., 14 July 2021, Nayana TBGT (M) 18617; ibid., 20 July 2021, Nayana TBGT (M) 18623; ibid., 23 August 2021, Nayana TBGT (M) 18625; ibid., 27 August 2021, Nayana TBGT (M) 18628; ibid., 7 September 2021, Nayana TBGT (M) 18669; ibid., 9 September 2021, Nayana TBGT (M) 18675; ibid., 15 September 2021, Nayana TBGT (M) 18686; ibid 2 November 2021, Nayana TBGT (M) 18739; ibid., 5 July 2022, Nayana TBGT (M) 18891; ibid., 6 July 2022, Nayana TBGT (M) 18892; ibid., 8 July 2022, Nayana TBGT (M) 18895; 5 July 2022, Nayana TBGT (M) 18949.	en	Nayana, P. K., Ck, Pradeep (2023): A new species of Candolleomyces (Psathyrellaceae, Agaricales) from Western Ghats, India. Phytotaxa 606 (1): 63-72, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.606.1.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.606.1.6
