Two interesting Pterula species from Maharashtra, India

Two interesting species of clavarioid fungi Pterula indica sp. nov. and P. verticillata collected from Pune, Maharashtra, India are described, illustrated and discussed with closely allied species. Of these, Pterula indica is a new species characterized by the reddish brown to dark brown basidiomes, branched polychotomously below, dichotomously at the apex with white to yellowish white, acute apices, and having cylindric, smooth basidiospores and hyphoid to cylindric cystidia with short mucronate apex. Pterula verticillata is distinguished by pale orange to peach basidiomes that branched polychotomously below, verticillately to irregularly above, and having cylindric, smooth basidiospores and hyphoid cystidia with rostrate apex.