Molecular and morphological characterization of a new species of Gloeophyllum (Basidiomycota, Agaricomycetes) from India

Present paper deals with an interesting species of Gloeophyllum collected from an angiospermous fencing pole in Bhaderwah region, District Doda of Jammu and Kashmir, India. Based on morphological features and phylogenetic analysis of the combined Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) and nuclear Large Subunit (nLSU) sequence data, it has been found different from the already described taxa within genus Gloeophyllum, hence described and illustrated as Gloeophyllum longisporum, a species new to science. The holotype specimen is deposited at the Herbarium, Department of Botany, Punjabi University, Patiala (PUN 10722).