The record of an albinotic Tubaria from the Czech Republic was studied and compared with a macroscopically similar collection from Norway. However, the two specimens represent different taxa due to both morphological characters and DNA sequences. The main microscopic characters usually used for species identification of the Tubaria furfuracea complex (including T. furfuracea, T. hiemalis, and T. romagnesiana) are discussed on the base of studied collections from the BRNM herbarium. According to our studies, the main characters (size of basidiospores, shape and size of cheilocystidia, width of the hymenophoral trama hyphae) usually used for identification of these three species are not generally applicable. Further detailed anatomic-morphological and molecular studies are desirable to solve the problem of species limits in the Tubaria furfuracea complex.
Antonín V., Kramoliš J., Tomšovský M. (2012): Two collections of albinotic forms of Tubaria (Basidiomycota, Agaricales, Inocybaceae). – Czech Mycology 64(2): 197–208.
