Lycogala succineum Leontyev & Schnittler, in Leontyev, Ishchenko & Schnittler, Mycologia 115 (4): 538 (2023)

Fig. 15

Specimen examined.

CHINA • Jiangsu Province: Zijin Mountain National Forest Park, 32.0587°N, 118.8678°E, on rotten wood, 20 Jul 2024, collected by Wen-Long Song, Qian Meng, and Ling-Xiao Chen (HFNNU 10822) ; • Zijin Mountain National Forest Park, 32.0623°N, 118.8748°E, on rotten wood, 18 Jul 2024, collected by Wen-Long Song, Ya-Jing Chen, and Qian Meng (HFNNU 10828) ; • Zijin Mountain National Forest Park, 32.0594°N, 118.8657°E, on rotten wood, 20 Jul 2024, collected by Wen-Long Song, Qian Meng, and Ling-Xiao Chen (HFNNU 10833) ; • Zijin Mountain National Forest Park, 32.0572°N, 118.8693°E, on rotten wood, 20 Jul 2024, collected by Wen-Long Song, Qian Meng, and Ling-Xiao Chen (HFNNU 10834) . • Henan Province: Baotianman National Nature Reserve, 33.5129°N, 111.9432°E, on rotten wood, 23 Jul 2016, collected by Yang Gao and Gao-Wei Wang (HFNNU 11166) ; • Baotianman National Nature Reserve, 33.5152°N, 111.9399°E, on rotten wood, 23 Jul 2016, collected by Yang Gao and Gao-Wei Wang (HFNNU 11200) .

Distribution.

Ukraine, Germany (Leontyev et al. 2023 b), Belarus (Leontyev et al. 2023 b; Leontyev et al. 2024), Norway (Leontyev et al. 2023 b; Johannesen and Vetlesen 2024), and China (this study).

Notes.

Lycogala succineum is recorded in China for the first time. The main characteristics of this species are medium-sized, rufous beige sporocarps, the vesicles, which are loosely and evenly distributed, solitary, rounded, amber-yellow peridial, and the spore mass, which is light pinkish-gray or light salmon-gray. The Chinese collections fit well with the original description of L. succineum (Leontyev et al. 2023 b) . Subtle differences include the ornamentation of capillitium, which does not possess regular bracelet-like thickenings, as stated in the original description, and the presence of small spines on the surface. However, these differences do not appear significant (see fig. 10 H, K in Leontyev et al. 2023 b). From the perspective of phylogenetic analysis (Fig. 2), Chinese specimens of L. succineum (HFNNU 10822, HFNNU 10828, HFNNU 10833, HFNNU 10834, HFNNU 11166, and HFNNU 11200) cluster together with other specimens of L. succineum (UBS = 100, PP = 1).