Macromycetes of Pinacate and Great Altar Desert biosphere reserve, Sonora, Mexico

Abstract

Macromycetes associated with four different vegetation types in the Pinacate and Great Altar Desert biosphere reserve were studied over a one-year period. Twenty-seven taxa representing the Phallales and Agaricales were determined. Families represented include the Geastraceae (4), Agaricaceae (5), Phelloriniaceae (1), Lycoperdaceae (4), Schizophyllaceae (1), and Tulostomataceae (12). Of these, Montagnea arenaria and Podaxis pistillaris, which produced the highest number of collections, were the most widely distributed; species belonging to the Geastraceae and Lycoperdaceae showed a more restricted distribution. The most species-rich genus was Tulostoma with 12 taxa. Geastrum berkeleyi, G. schmidelii and Tulostoma mohavei are new records for México. Chorology and phenology of all species are outlined, and SEM micrographs of basidiospores representing six species are provided.

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MYCOTAXON
Volume 95, pp. 81–90 January–March 2006
Macromycetes of Pinacate and Great Altar Desert
biosphere reserve, Sonora, Mexico
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*esqueda@cascabel.ciad.mx
1Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo
A.C. Apartado Postal 1735, Hermosillo 83000, Sonora. México
2Centro de Estudios Superiores del Estado de Sonora
Apartado Postal 11, Admón. 11, Hermosillo 83000, Sonora. México
3Laboratorio de Micología, Instituto de Biología, UNAM
Apartado Postal 70-233, Coyoacán 04510, México D.F. México
Abstract—        
           
Phallales Agaricales 
GeastraceaeAgaricaceaePhelloriniaceae
LycoperdaceaeSchizophyllaceaeTulostomataceaeMontagnea
arenaria Podaxis pistillaris,  
 GeastraceaeLycoperdaceae
Tulostoma 
Geastrum berkeleyi, G. schmidelii Tulostoma mohavei 
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dubium Badhamia melanospora Fuligo intermedia Physarum
notabile P. robustum P. straminipes 
. Battarreoides diguetii 
Dictyocephalos attenuatus         Tulostoma
cretaceumT. fimbriatumT. leiosporum


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Materials and methods
           
            
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    
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Table 1.
Localities N W Altitude Vegetation
Municipality of Sonoyta
    
    
    
    
    
Municipality of San Luis Rio Colorado
    
Municipality of Puerto Peñasco
    
    
    
    
Vegetation typ es          

Results and discussion
Phallales: Geastraceae—
  
Geastrum G. berkeleyiG. kotlabae
G. schmidelii Geastrum berkeleyi,G. campestre G.
kotlabae,G. pseudolimbatum 



G. berkeleyi
Geastrum kotlabae   G. campestreG. pouzarii 



G. kotlabae     
 G. minimum  
          
      

Geastrum schmideliiG. pectinatum 


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Table 2. 
SPECIES LOCALITIES
I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X
Phallales, Geastraceae
Geastrum berkeleyi 
Geastrum kotlabae  
Geastrum minimum 
Geastrum schmidelii 
Agaricales, Agaricaceae
Longula texensis   
Chlorophyllum molybdites  
Endoptychum arizonicum
  
Montagnea arenaria          
Podaxis pistillaris          
Phelloriniaceae
Phellorinia herculeana
 
Lycoperdaceae
Abstoma stuckertii
 
Calvatia pygmaea  
Season: 

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Table 2 (Reserve macromycete distribution), concluded
SPECIES LOCALITIES
I II III IV V VI VII VIII IX X
Disciseda hyalothrix  
Disciseda verrucosa 
Schizophyllaceae
Schizophyllum commune 
Tulostomataceae
Battarreoides diguetii
  
Schizostoma laceratum        
Tulostoma albicans 
Tulostoma cretaceum   
Tulostoma fimbriatum  
Tulostoma involucratum  
Tulostoma leiosporum      
Tulostoma mohavei  
Tulostoma nanum    
Tulostoma obesum         
Tulostoma pygmaeum 
Tulostoma xerophilum  
Season: 

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           
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Agaricales: Agaricaceae—         
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           
AgaricaceaeMontagnea arenariaPodaxis pistillaris
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Tulostoma obesum
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Longula texensis, Chlorophyllum molybdites  Endoptychum arizonicum  
  .Longula texensis,     Gyrophragmium
dunalii


  Agaricus Chlorophyllum molybdites  
   
         
Endoptychum arizonicum
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Agaricales: Phelloriniaceae—      
Phellorinia
herculeana
  P. herculeana    
          
            

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
Agaricales: Lycoperdaceae—     
          
Lycoperdaceae 
Abstoma stuckertii 

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 Geastrum berkeleyi 
Geastrum schmidelii Abstoma stuckertiiDisciseda
hyalothrixDisciseda verrucosaTulostoma mohavei
 


Disciseda hyalothrix
Disciseda
D. hyalothrix         
 

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    Disciseda verrucosa     
      
  
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Calvatia pygmaeaCalvatia 
Lanopila
         
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Agaricales: Tulostomaceae—     
  
Battarreoides diguetii          
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        
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Schizostoma laceratum          
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
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   Tulostoma     T. albicans,T.
mohavei  T. pygmaeum  T.
involucratum T. leiosporum
T. obesum,   
       
Tulostoma fimbriatum         
Tulostoma mohavei T. obesum, 
 
 T. mohavei, 
         
Tulostoma pygmaeum
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Agaricales: Schizophyllaceae—
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Schizophyllum commune
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