TABLE 2. — Morphological comparison of Geastrum Pers. complanatum and closely related species based on descriptions by Zamora et al. (2015). In bold, characteristics of the new species.
| Geastrum biplicatum Berk. & M. A. Curtis | Geastrum glaucescens Speg. | Geastrum meridionale J. C. Zamora | Geastrum papinuttii J. C. Zamora | Geastrum parvistriatum J. C. Zamora & Calonge Geastrum plicatum Berk. Geastrum pectinatum Pers. | Geastrum pectinatum Pers. | Geastrum striatum de Candolle Geastrum tenuipes Berk. | Geastrum tenuipes Berk. | Geastrum complanatum sp. nov. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Exoperidium | ||||||||||
| 34 mm diam., with 7 non-hygroscopic rays | 18-45 mm diam., with 6-8 non-hygroscopic rays | 45-125 mm diam., with 5-12 non-hygroscopic rays | 12-24 mm diam., with 6-11 non-hygroscopic rays | (13-)19-47 diam., with 5-12 non-hygroscopic rays | 19-47., with non-hygroscopic 38-62 mm diam., with 6-9 non- hygroscopicrays | 38-62 mm 20-135 mm diam., with diam., with 6-9 non- (4–) 6-10 hygroscopic (–11) non-rays hygroscopic rays | 20-135 mm diam., with (4–) 6-10 (–11) non- hygroscopic rays | 21-85 mm diam., with (4–) 6-10 (–12) non-hygro- scopic rays 25-82 mm diam., with 6-11 raiosnon- hygro- scopic rays | 17-28 mm diam., with 7-11 non- hygroscopic rays | |
| Endoperidium | ||||||||||
| 11 mm diam., dark brown, crystalline matter surface of COD bipyramidal crystals with 15.0 μm diam. | 5-16 mm diam., dark brown to black, crystalline matter surface of COD bipyramidal crystals with 6.0-15.0 μm diam. | 12-33 mm diam., cream to brownish grey, rarely dark brown, crystalline matter surface of COD bipyramidal crystals with 6.0-13.0 μm diam. | 3.5-6.5 mm diam., mainly dark brown to black, crystalline matter surface of COD bipyramidal crystals with 6.0-12.0 μm diam. | 5-16 mm diam., mainly dark brown to blackish, crystalline matter surface of COD bipyramidal crystals with 5.5-12.5 μm diam. | mm., mainly brown blackish, crystalline COD bipyramidal with12.5 μm. 10-18 mm diam., light to dark brown, crystalline matter surface of COD bipyramidal crystals with 7.0- 20.0 (–32.0) μm diam. | 10-18 mm (4,5–) 10-25 diam., light (–36) mm to dark diam., dark brown, brown, crystalline crystalline matter matter surface surface of COD of COD bipyramidal bipyramidal crystals crystals with 7.0- with 5.0- 20.0 15.0 μm (–32.0) μm diam. diam. | (4,5–) 10-25 (–36) mm diam., dark brown, crystalline matter surface of COD bipyramidal crystals with 5.0- 15.0 μm diam. | 5.5-26 mm diam., brown to black, crystalline matter surface of COD bipyramidal crystals with 5.0- 15.0 μm diam. 8-17 mm diam., grayish to dark brownish gray, crystalline matter surface of COD bipyramidal crystals with (20–) 25-55 μm diam. | 8-17 mm diam., grayish to dark brownish gray, crystalline matter surface of COD bipyramidal crystals with (20–) 25-55 μm diam. | 5-13 mm diam., grayish brown, crystalline matter surface of COD pupallike crystals with (4.1–) 5.5-18.0 μm diam. |
| Peristome | ||||||||||
| Sulcate, slightly delimited, with 19 folds | Sulcate, distinctly or not distinctly delimited, with 11-25 folds | Sulcate, distinctly or not distinctly delimited, with (17–) 22-52 (–60) folds. | Sulcate, distinctly or not distinctly delimited, with 12-20 folds | Sulcate, distinctly or not distinctly delimited, with 7-23 folds | , distinctly or distinctly delimited, 7-23 Sulcate, distinctly or not distinctly delimited, with 16-30 folds | Sulcate, distinctly or not distinctly delimited, with 11-35 folds | Sulcate, sometimes well delimited, with 19-36 folds Sulcate, mainly well delimited, with 14-27 folds | Sulcate, mainly well delimited, with 14-27 folds | Slightly sulcate, sometimes well delimited, with 16-21 folds | |
| Pedicel | ||||||||||
| Brownish, 2.0 mm in height | Brown to dark brown, 0.5-2.5 mm in height | Cream to dark brownish gray, (2.5–) 3.0-9.0 (–9.5) mm in height | Brown to grayish brown, 0.5- 1.3 mm in height | Brown to dark brown, rarely pale in color, 0.5-2.5 (–3.0) mm in height | to dark, rarely in color,2.5 (–3.0) in height Light or dark coloured, often very slender, 3.5-6.0 mm in height | Light or dark Mostly light coloured, coloured, often very slender to slender, more or 3.5-6.0 mm less stout, in height (1.5–) 3.5- 13 (–15 mm White to brownish, (1.0–) 2.0- 9.0 mm in height in height | Mostly light coloured, slender to more or less stout, (1.5–) 3.5- 13 (–15 mm in height | Light or dark Mostly light coloured, coloured, often very slender to slender, more or 3.5-6.0 mm less stout, in height (1.5–) 3.5- 13 (–15 mm White to brownish, (1.0–) 2.0- 9.0 mm in height in height | Light or dark coloured, very slender, 3.0- 7.0 mm in height | Yellowish white, 2,0- 3.0 mm in height |
| Apophysis | ||||||||||
| Not observed | Not observed | Not observed | Not observed | Not observed | observed Not observed | Not Not observed observed | Not observed | Well developed, solid, in ring shape with acute border Not observed | , Not observed | Discrete, sulcate, color lighter than the endoperidium |
| Capillitium | ||||||||||
| Hyphae thick up to 10.5 μm diam. | Hyphae thick, 6.0-9.0 µm diam. | Hyphae thick, (5.5–) 6.0- 9.0 (–9.5) µm diam. | Hyphae thick, 4.5-6.0 µm diam. | Hyphae thick, (5.0–) 5.5-8.0 (–8.5) µm diam. | thick,–) 5.5-8.0) µm. Hyphae thick, 6.0-8.0 µm diam. | Hyphae Not thick, observed (8.0–)9.0-13.0 (–15.0) µm diam. | Not observed | Hyphae thick, 6.0-9.0 µm diam. | Hyphae thick, 3.0-6.0 µm diam. | |
| Basidiospores | ||||||||||
| Globose, ornamentation baculate-pilate, (4.5–) 5.0- 6.0 μm diam. | Globose, ornamentation verrucose to irregularly pilate 5.0-7.0 (–7.5) µm diam. | Globose, ornamentation baculate-pilate (5.5–) 6.0- 7.5 (–8.5) µm diam. | Globose, ornamentation verrucose to irregularly pilate 4.0-5.5 µm diam. | Globose, orna - mentation Globoseverrucose tionto irregu- larly pilate (4,5 (4.5–) 5.0-7.0 5.0- (–7.5) µm diam diam. | - Globose, ornamenta- tion baculate-pilate, (4,5–) 5.0-6.5 μm diam. | Globose, ornamentation baculate-pilate, 5.5-7.5 (–8.0) μm diam. | Globose, ornamentation verrucose to irregularly pilate 5.0- 6.0 μm diam. | Globose, ornamentation baculate-pilate, 5.5-7.5 (–8.5) μm diam. | Globose, ornamentation baculate-pilate, 4.8-8.5 μm diam. |
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