Candolleomyces subcacao T. Bau & J.Q. Yan, sp. nov. MycoBank No: 839231 Fig. 2
Holotype. China. Henan Province: Bird Island, Nanwan Lake, Xinyang City, 32°06'43.32"N, 113°06'03.06"E, 124 m elevation, 17 July 2016, Tolgor Bau, JunQing Yan, HMJAU37807 (holotype!)
Etymology. Referring to its morphological similarity to C. cacao.
Diagnosis. Differs from C. cacao in having a distinct spore germ pore.
Description. Pileus 11–35 mm, spreading hemispherically to planar, hygrophanous, brown (7E7–7E8), striate up to halfway from the margin or indistinct, becoming slightly dirty white (7B1–7B2) upon drying. Veil pale brown (7A5–7B6), thin, fibrillose, falling off easily. Context thin and very fragile, dirty white (7B1–7B2), approximately 1.0 mm thick at the centre. Lamellae 3.0–4.0 mm wide, moderately close, adnate to slightly adnexed, pale brown (C3–C4) to dark brown (7D6–7E6), saw-toothed under 20× magnification. Stipe 40–50 mm long, approximately 2.0 mm thick, white (7A1–7B1), hollow, equal, smooth, with white fibrils (7A1–7B1) at the base. Odour and taste indistinct. Spores 6.8–8.0(8.8) × 3.9–4.9 μm, Q = 1.4–1.8, ellipsoid to oblong-ellipsoid, profile slightly flattened on one side, rarely phaseoliform, inamyloid, smooth, pale yellow-brown, darkening in 5% KOH, pale brown, germ pores distinct, but small, approximately 1.0 μm wide. Basidia 17–22 × 6.1–7.3 μm, clavate, hyaline, 4-spored. Pleurocystidia absent. Cheilocystidia 22–36 × 9.8–14 μm, scattered to moderately numerous, various, utriform to fusiform, with an obtuse to broadly obtuse apex, rarely subcapitate or clavate, ovoid, thin-walled. Trama of gills irregular. Pileipellis consisting of 2–3 cells in the deep layer of the subglobose cell, 20–37 μm wide.
Habit and habitat. Solitary to scattered on rotten wood in oak forest.
Other specimens examined. China. Henan Province: Bird Island, Nanwan Lake, Xinyang City, 17 July 2016, Tolgor Bau and Jun-Qing Yan, HMJAU37808, HMJAU37809; Borden Forest Park, Xinyang City, 17 July 2017, Jun-Qing Yan, HMJAU37898, HMJAU37899, HMJAU37900, HMJAU37948, HMJAU44554; Jiangxi Province: Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang City, 3 June 2019, JunQing Yan, HFJAU0716, 9 June 2019, Jun-Qing Yan, HFJAU1274; Yun Bi Feng National Forest Park, Shangrao City, 5 July 2019, HFJAU1014.