Basionym: Hygrophorus subovinus Hesler & A. H. Sm., North American species of Hygrophorus: 162 (1963). Type: TENNESSEE, Cade’s Cove, Great Smoky Mt. National Park, 8 Jun 1957,
on soil in deciduous woods, Hesler 22583, TENN. SB-715992 Neohygrocybe lawsonensis (A. M. Young) Lodge & Padamsee, comb. nov. SAR302503 chemical structure MycoBank MB804064. Basionym: Hygrocybe lawsonensis A. M. Young in A. M. Young & A. E. Wood, Austral. Syst. Bot. 10(6):981 (1997). Type: AUSTRALIA, New South Wales, on soil in sclerophyll forest, T. Lawson, 30 May 1992, UNSW 92/211. Neohygrocybe sect. Tristes (Bataille) Lodge & Padamsee, comb. nov. MycoBank MB804067. Basionym: Hygrophorus [unranked] Tristes Bataille, Mém. Soc. émul. Doubs, sér. 8 4:183 (1910). ≡ Hygrocybe sect. Tristes Natural Product Library (Bataille) Singer, Lilloa 22: 151 (1951) [1949] [≡ Neohygrocybe sect. “Nitratae” Herink, superfluous, nom. illeg., Art. 52.1], Lectoype designated by Singer (1951): Hygrocybe nitrata (Pers.) Wünsche, Die Pilze: 112 (1877), ≡ Agaricus nitratus Pers., Syn. meth. fung. (Göttingen) 2: 356 (1801), ≡ Neohygrocybe nitrata (Pers.) Kovalenko, Opredelitel’ Gribov SSSR (Leningrad): 40 (1989), [≡ “Neohygrocybe nitrata” (Pers.) Herink (1959), nom. invalid., Art. 33.2]. N. Sect. Tristes is emended here by Lodge to include only the type species. Odor nitrous. Differs
from sect. Neohygrocybe in flesh not staining red when bruised. Phylogenetic support The collection sequenced from North Wales (as H. nitrata) matches the type description, second so we assume that the collection sequenced from Russia is an un-named cryptic species in sect. Nitratae. The collection identified as N. nitrata from N.Y. in the Supermatrix analysis is apparently N. ingrata. Inclusion of species of sect. Nitratae in phylogenetic analyses caused instability, but we retained them in the LSU analysis. N. nitrata and N. aff. nitrata appeared in separate clades in the LSU analysis. The LSU sequence from the Russian collection appears on a long branch near the base of sect. Neohygrocybe while the sequence from the Welsh Turlogh Hill collection appears on a long branch from the
backbone. The ambiguous support for this group indicates a need for further revision with greater taxon sampling, so we have tentatively retained the section. Species included Type species: Neohygrocybe nitrata. An un-named taxon from Russia resembling N. nitrata likely also belongs here based on morophology and molecular sequences. Comments Sect. Tristes (Bataille) Singer (1951) replaces the superfluous sect. Nitratae Herink (1959) based on priority, but we retained Herink’s narrower circumscription for this group. Some collections of N. nitrata reportedly have faint staining reactions, (DMB) and the placement of these needs to be verified with DNA sequencing. Porpolomopsis Bresinsky, Regensb. Mykol. Schr. 15: 145 (2008). Type species: Porpolomopsis calyptriformis (Berk.) Bresinsky, Regensb. Mykol. Schr. 15: 145 (2008) ≡ Hygrocybe calyptriformis (Berk.) Fayod, Annls. Sci. Nat. Bot., sér.