Gabriel Moreno

• Dr.
• Professor at University of Alcalá

In this work Romagnesiella clavus f. mediterranea Contu is elevated to the rank of autonomous species with the name Romagnesiella contui sp. nov in honor of the Italian mycologist Marco Contu. This is based on the examination of a paratypus of the aforementioned form existing in the TENN herbarium. Furthermore, the macroscopic, microscopic and mole...

Laccaria is a diverse and widespread genus of ectomycorrhizal fungi that form symbiotic associations with various trees and shrubs, playing a significant role in forest ecosystems. Approximately 85 Laccaria species are formally recognised, but recent studies indicate this number may be an underestimation, highlighting the need for further taxonomic...

Abstract: Novel species of fungi described in this study include those from various countries as follows: Antarctica, Leuconeurospora bharatiensis from accumulated snow sediment sample. Argentina, Pseudocercospora quetri on leaf spots of Luma apiculata. Australia, Polychaetomyces verrucosus on submerged decaying wood in sea water, Ustilaginoidea co...

MORENO, G. & E. VERA (2024). Leucocoprinus variicolor in Spain. Bol. Soc. Micol. Madrid 48: 99-103. A rare species, Leucocoprinus variicolor, very infrequently cited in the mycological literature is described. Illustrations and photographs of its most important macro and microscopic characteristics are presented. A molecular phylogeny based on the...

MORENO, G., M.M. DIOS, Á. LÓPEZ-VILLALBA, A. CASTILLO, J.L. MANJÓN & J.E. FRÍAS (2024). Studies on the Myxomycetes of Catamarca (Argentina) I. Bol. Soc. Micol. Madrid 48: 9-29. Forty-eight collections were included in this study, represening a total of 21 different species of myxomycetes. and Physarum album) are new records for Catamarca, while two...

DANIËLS, P.P. & G. MORENO (2024). New data on Hymenopellis hispanica. Bol. Soc. Micol. Madrid 48: 71-77. Hymenopellis hispanica is fully described, it is a little known mediterranean species usually misi-dentified with Oudemansiella xeruloides. Illustrations and photographs of its most important macro and microscopic characteristics are presented....

MORENO G., P.P. DANIËLS, M.P. NUÑEZ & J.L. MANJÓN (2024). Amylosporus campbellii a house light and water drainage intruder. Bol. Soc. Micol. Madrid 48: 55-62. Amylosporus campbellii is presented as a new record from Spain, fruiting inside houses in Almería and Alicante (Spain). Photographs of its most important macro and microscopic characteristics...

MORENO, G., A. SÁNCHEZ & Á. LÓPEZ-VILLALBA (2024). Comatricha canarien-sis, a new succulenticolous myxomycete from the Canary Islands (Spain). Bol. Soc. Micol. Madrid 48: 3-7. A new succulenticolous species of the genus Comatricha that fruits abundantly on woody debris of Euphorbia spp. is described. Macro-and microphotographs of the fruiting bodie...

Novel species of fungi described in this study include those from various countries as follows: Australia, Baobabopsis sabindy in leaves of Eragrostis spartinoides, Cortinarius magentiguttatus among deep leaf litter, Laurobasidium azarandamiae from uredinium of Puccinia alyxiae on Alyxia buxifolia, Marasmius pseudoelegans on well-rotted twigs and l...

The aim of this study is to carry out a taxonomic revision of the groups Calamistratum and Geraniodorum of the genus Inosperma sect. Inosperma in Europe. For this purpose, a multigenic phylogenetic analysis was carried out using the ITS, LSU, RPB1 and RPB2 markers, covering a total of 111 sequences, including those generated from the existing type-...

Light and scanning electron microscopy were applied to re-assess diagnostic characters of type specimens and critical specimens of Diachea radiata, D. splendens, D. subsessilis, Diderma arboreum, Didymium. laxifilum, D. leoninum var. effusum, D. trachysporum, D. trochus, Physarum bitectum, P. straminipes, Reticularia intermedia, R. jurana, R. liceo...

The nivicolous species of the genus Diderma are challenging to identify, and there are several competing views on their delimitation. We analyzed 102 accessions of nivicolous Diderma spp. that were sequenced for two or three unlinked genes to determine which of the current taxonomic treatments is better supported by molecular species delimitation m...

There has been an extraordinary increase in interest concerning the transfer of radioactive contamination to the fruit bodies of fungi since the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident. These investigations, however, have focused exclusively on ®eld studies aimed fundamentally at quantifying the behaviour of the radiocaesium component of the contami...

A new genus and species of myxomycete, Tasmaniomyxa umbilicata, is described based on numerous observations in Tasmania and additional records from southeastern Australia and New Zealand. The new taxon is characterized by an unusual combination of characters from two families: Lamprodermataceae and Didymiaceae. With Lamprodermataceae the species sh...

MORENO G. & P. ALVARADO (2023). Terfezia honrubiae, priority name over Terfezia solarislibera Bol. Soc. Micol. Madrid 47: 17-19. Molecular data of the type collections of Terfezia honrubiae and T. solarislibera suggest that both species are synonyms, with priority for Terfezia honrubiae.

G. MORENO, A. SÁNCHEZ & A. CASTILLO (2023). Comatricha appendiculata, a new nivicolous myxomycete from Sierra de Guadarrama National Park (Spain). Bol. Soc. Micol. Madrid 47: 9-15. A new nivicolous species of the genus Comatricha that fruits abundantly on the woody debris (pro-cessed wood) of Pinus sp. is described. Macro-and microphotographs of fr...

EMHMED, M.A., H.M. DUZAN & G. MORENO (2023). new recorded hypogeous fungi from Libya. Bol. Soc. Micol. Madrid 47: 21-29. In order to explore the taxonomic diversity of hypogeous fungi in Libya, morphological and phy-logenetic analyses were conducted of samples collected at several semi-arid zones in this country. As a result, Picoa juniperi, P. lef...

MORENO, G., A. SÁNCHEZ & A. CASTILLO (2023). Paradiacheopsis rigida (Myxo mycetes) a misinterpreted species. Bol. Soc. Micol. Madrid 47: 3-8. A rare species of Paradiacheopsis is described and illustrated herein. It is compared with other species in the genera Comatricha. We provide micrographs of the most important characters as observed under LM...

Macbrideola gallicola is described as a new species to science after studying specimens collected in France and Montenegro, fructifying on galls of Rosaceae. The new species can be distinguished by the loose and flexuous capillitium, the conspicuously, spiny spores, and by its habitat. Macro- and micrographs of the morphological characters are prov...

Novel species of fungi described in this study include those from various countries as follows: Australia, Aschersonia mackerrasiae on whitefly, Cladosporium corticola on bark of Melaleuca quinquenervia, Penicillium nudgee from soil under Melaleuca quinquenervia, Pseudocercospora blackwoodiae on leaf spot of Persoonia falcata, and Pseudocercospora...

Nuestra intención con este trabajo es, a través de una divulgación responsable, transmitiros nuestro entusiasmo por el sorprendente e interesante mundo de la micología. Evitar intoxicaciones y fomentar el respeto no solo a los hongos, sino a la Naturaleza y los ecosistemas en nuestras salidas al campo. Intentamos evitar, en la medida de lo posible,...

The newly discovered cyphelloid species Chromocyphella meloana is here described and illustrated based on specimens collected in continental France. Hypothetic reproductive isolation of this species is supported by the morpholological characteristics of fruit bodies, which initially develop as corticioid basidiomes, and mature into folded, torn str...

The phylogenetic relationships among Tirmania were investigated using the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and large subunit (LSU) regions of the nuclear-encoded ribosomal DNA (rDNA) and compared with morphological and bioclimatic data. The combined analyses of forty-one Tirmania samples from Algeria and Spain supported four lineages corresponding...

A new Stemonitis species from Northern Asia is described and illustrated. The species was found in the Altai Territory, Russia. This new species clearly differs from previously known species by several morphological characters. The new species and four other species of the Stemonitis genus have the thickening and widening of the column apex—Stemoni...

Myxomycetes, or plasmodial slime molds, are a monophyletic group ofamoeboid protists whose classification is based mainly on morphological features of fruiting bodies. Although published phylogenies based on one or two genetic markers have clarified the boundaries of the main order-level systematic groups, the position and composition of some famil...

Tulostoma loonbanglaense sp. nov. is described from Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan. ITS sequences confirm its position within the genus Tulostoma, and suggest that it is separate from other identified species of this genus. The species has globose to subglobose, with wide, solitary and appressed spines basidiospores, the basidiospores are relativ...

Light and scanning electron microscopy were applied to re-assess diagnostic characters of type specimens and critical specimens of twelve species in the order Trichiales (Myxomycetes) from the collections of the Natural History Museum in London (BM). The results were used to discuss published data and the type status for specimens of Arcyria imperi...

Inocybe vaurasii is described as a new species belonging to Section Marginatae group Xanthomelas. A comparative morphological and molecular study has been carried out with other species showing basidiospores with stellate appearance and similar sizes: I. xanthomelas, I. humilis and I. subrimosa. An ITS bar code was obtained from type materials of a...

The relationships among species of Hygrophorus sect. Aurei were inferred based on morphology, molecular phylogeny, and chemical reactions. It was found that (1) there are at least 14 species within the section, seven of which occur in China. Among the Chinese taxa, four are new, viz., H. alpinus, H. esculentus, H. pseudohypothejus, and H. xiangjun....

Twenty-six collections of myxomycetes are reported from localities in northern Spain and southern France, representing nine species: Diderma alpinum , D. europaeum , D. fallax , D. meyerae , Lamproderma ovoideum , L. sauteri , Lepidoderma peyerimhoffii , Meriderma echinulatum , and Physarum vernum . The LM and SEM micrographs included illustrate th...

A new myxomycete species, Didymium dictyosporum from Mexico, is described and illustrated. It is characterized by its sessile to shortly stipitate whitish to greyish fruiting bodies, absence of a capillitium, and reticulate spores. The new species is compared with other morphologically similar myxomycetes. Micrographs of the most important characte...

An error occurred in the key : 1. KOH reaction none or only pale cream yellow . . . . . 5 [not 3] 2. Stipe smooth. Ring complete, not lacerated at maturity, membranous, persistent on stipe, made up of mostly filamentous hyphae .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 [not 5] We all apologize for this mistake.

Simple Summary Whitish lethal species of Amanita sect. Phalloideae (‘destroying angels’) are known to be among the most poisonous fungi worldwide due to their production of amatoxins. The taxonomy of species occurring in the Mediterranean region is here revised, clarifying the identity of several names. Amanita decipiens, A. porrinensis, and A. vir...

Identification de dix nouveaux taxons de Myxomycètes pour le Royaume du Maroc...

Magic mushrooms are naturally occurring fungi that are considered hallucinogenic drugs because they contain psilocybin and psilocin. These substances are controlled in almost every country in the world, so the use, possession, cultivation, and sale of magic mushrooms are prohibited in whole or in part. Despite this, the abuse of magic mushrooms con...

The genus Morchella has gone through turbulent taxonomic treatments. Although significant progress in Morchella systematics has been achieved in the past decade, several problems remain unresolved and taxonomy in the genus is still in flux. In late 2019, a paper published in the open-access journal Scientific Reports raised serious concerns about t...

Novel species of fungi described in this study include those from various countries as follows: Antartica, Cladosporium austrolitorale from coastal sea sand. Australia, Austroboletus yourkae on soil, Crepidotus innuopurpureus on dead wood, Curvularia stenotaphri from roots and leaves of Stenotaphrum secundatum and Thecaphora stajsicii from capsules...

LIZÁRRAGA, M. & G. MORENO (2021). A new species of Macbrideola from Chihuahua, Mexico. Bol. Soc. Micol. Madrid 45: 21-24. A new species of Macbrideola from Mexico is described and illustrated herein. It is characterized by a short stipe, persistent peridium with silver metallic tones and an internally smooth surface, and spores ornamented with spin...

MORENO, J.F., G. MORENO, Á. LÓPEZ-VILLALBA & M. DE HAAN (2021). A new species of Didymium from Spain. Bol. Soc. Micol. Madrid 45: 13-19. A new species, Didymium charoae, is described from Spain, where it was collected growing on mosses that covered the bark of living trees of Quercus ilex ssp. ballota and, more rarely, on the bark itself. Macro-and...

ZARAGOZANO, C. & G. MORENO (2021). Fungi and radioactivity. Bol. Soc. Micol. Madrid 45: 115-129. The ability of fungi to bioaccumulate radioactive elements, and its likely application to reduce the concentration levels of those in several contaminated environments, is a recent and profoundly broad topic on which information is aim to be gathered in...

MORENO, G., J.A. PICADO, P. ROSARIO & P. ALVARADO (2021). Contribution to mushrooms study from the Alcala's University external campus. Bol. Soc. Micol. Madrid 45: 91-113. A taxonomic study of the mushrooms growing on the external campus of the University of Alcala is carried out. 80 different species collected in different habitats are studied, Sa...

Tubaria vulcanica sp. nov. is described

The Chinese species complex of Hygrophorus russula in subsection Clitocyboides has been studied. Three new species, H. orientalis, H. qinggangjun, and H. yunnanensis were proposed based on morphology, molecular systematics, and chemical reactions. Hygrophorus qinggangjun and H. yunnanensis occur at high elevations of Yunnan China; H. orientalis wid...

Laccaria macrocystidiata, a marasmioid species, originally described as Laccaria affinis f. macrocystidiata from Central Italy, was synonymised with the North American taxon Laccaria laccata var. pallidifolia, but only on a morphological basis. In this paper, the independent position of L. macrocystidiata from L. laccata var. pallidifolia and other...

Novel species of fungi described in this study include those from various countries as follows: Algeria, Phaeoacremonium adelophialidum from Vitis vinifera. Antarctica, Comoclathris antarctica from soil. Australia, Coniochaeta salicifolia as endophyte from healthy leaves of Geijera salicifolia, Eremothecium peggii in fruit of Citrus australis, Micr...

En esta guía se estudian de una forma rigurosa, amplia y científica las principales especies de setas que pueden encontrarse comercializadas en nuestra comunidad autónoma, cultivadas o que crecen de forma natural. Para facilitar la identificación de cada una de las especies y géneros, en la mayoría de ellos se han destacado sus caracteres macroscóp...

The Chinese species complex of Hygrophorus russula in subsection Clitocyboides has been studied. Three new species, H. orientalis , H. qinggangjun and H. yunnanensis were proposed, based on morphology, molecular systematics and chemical reactions. Hygrophorus qinggangjun and H. yunnanensis occur at high elevations of Yunnan China; H. orientalis is...

HOOFF van H., G. MORENO & Á. LÓPEZ-VILLALBA (2021). A new species of Diderma and two interesting collections for Europe. Bol. Soc. Micol. Madrid 45: 5-11. A new species of Diderma is described and illustrated herein. In addition, the descriptions of fimicolous forms of Fuligo cinerea and the first European collections of Lamproderma alexopouli-desc...

LIZÁRRAGA, M. & G. MORENO (2020). A new record of Licea tuberculata from Mexico. Bol. Soc. Micol. Madrid 44: 13-16. A new record of a rare species of Licea from Mexico is described and illustrated herein. It is compared with other morphologically similar species. We provide micrographs of the most important characters as observed under LM and SEM.

It is caused by the parasitic fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, even though not even the infection mechanisms nor interactions between different host and the parasite are enterely understood nowadays. There is, however, consensous about human involment in the propagation of the fungus trough amphibian trade on a global scale and the devastatin...

Resumen. PÉREZ, B., G. MORENO, R. GALÁN & J.M. SANZ-ANQUELA (2020). Las aplicaciones de MALDI-TOF en la identificación de setas tóxicas y comestibles. Bol. Soc. Micol. Madrid 44: 51-73. La espectrometría de masas es una técnica muy utilizada en diferentes campos para identificar compuestos, cuantificarlos y determinar su estructura por la masa mole...

Sixty-two collections conserved in the herbaria BAFC and LIL are revised herein. Of the 31 different myxomycete species represented, seven are new records for Argentina. These are Arcyria affinis , Badhamia gigantospora , Cribraria purpurea , Fuligo intermedia , Physarum carneum , Physarum javanicum , and Physarum penetrale . The LM and SEM microgr...

Light-and scanning electron microscopy are applied to reassess diagnostic characters of type specimens and critical specimens of species in the genera Stemonitis and Symphytocarpus (Stemonitales, Myxomycetes) from the collections of the Natural History Museum London (BM). The results are used to discuss published data and the type status for specim...

The volcanic Canary Islands constitute a biodiversity hotspot. Although our knowledge of the native flora and fauna species is extensive, the myxobiota of these islands is not so well-known. For this reason, we provide herein eight new records for the checklist of Canarian myxomycetes with accurate descriptions and macro- and microphotographs. The...

The aim of this study was to demonstrate for the first time Fuligo septica spore viability in the stratosphere through spore germination and its complete life cycle. These protozoan spores were flown by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility (CSBF) flight 667NT, launched from its base in Fort S...

Novel species of fungi described in this study include those from various countries as follows: Antarctica , Apenidiella antarctica from permafrost, Cladosporium fildesense from an unidentified marine sponge. Argentina , Geastrum wrightii on humus in mixed forest. Australia , Golovinomyces glandulariae on Glandularia aristigera , Neoanungitea eucal...

MORENO G., J.L. MANJÓN & P. ALVARADO (2019). A new Terfezia from Spain. Bol. Soc. Micol. Madrid 43: 55-60. A new mycorrhizal species of the genus Terfezia from Tuberaria guttata in acidic soil is described. DNA-based phylogenetic analysis, as well as macro/microscopic photographs of its main morphological characteristics are provided.

MORENO, G., J.A. PICADO & P. ALVARADO (2019). Some Agaricus of the external campus of the University of Alcalá. Bol. Soc. Micol. Madrid 43: 111-128. Twelve Agaricus species collected from the external campus of the Alcala's University are described macro and microscopically. Photographs of the basidiomas are provided and confirmed molecularly.

MORENO G., J.L. MANJÓN & P. ALVARADO (2019). A new Terfezia from Spain. Bol. Soc. Micol. Madrid 43: 55-60. A new mycorrhizal species of the genus Terfezia from Tuberaria guttata in acidic soil is described. DNA-based phylogenetic analysis, as well as macro/microscopic photographs of its main morphological characteristics are provided.

Resumen. MORENO, G., R. GALÁN, B. PÉREZ & J.M. SANZ-ANQUELA (2019). Caracterización de Amanita phalloides y Lepiota brunneoincarnata mediante MALDI-TOF en la intoxicación ciclopeptídica. Bol. Soc. Micol. Madrid 43: 191-201. Las intoxicaciones por setas o micetismos, suponen un reto médico por la dificultad de su rápido y certero diagnóstico, únicam...

Despite the recent mycologists’ interest in relationships between gasteroid taxa and agaricoid Basidiomycetes lineages and an intensive debate on the evolution of enigmatic secotioid fungi, systematic studies of the genus Galeropsis have received little attention. Here, the taxonomy of this genus is revised based on morphological and nuclear riboso...

Perichaena acetabulifera is described as a new species of myxomycete that fruited profusely in moist chamber cultures on bark samples collected from Populus deltoides and Ulmus pumila growing in urban areas of Juarez City, Chihuahua, Mexico. Photographs of its diagnostic macroscopic and microscopic features are provided.

A comprehensive morphological and genetic study of type material and new collections of sequestrate Russulales species formerly belonging to the genera Arcangeliella, Elasmomyces, Gymnomyces, Hydnangium, Hymenogaster, Macowanites, Martellia, Secotium and Zelleromyces is here undertaken, for the purpose of providing a complete taxonomical revision o...

Sixty-three myxomycete species from the Southwestern Iberian Peninsula are recorded. The most interesting species are commented upon and presented with LM and SEM microphotographs of their distinguishing features. Comatricha parvula is described as a new species characterised by its small size and compared with morphologically similar species.

A detailed morphological examination of 12 specimens representing seven species in the genera Lamproderma and Meriderma collected from snowbank habitats in the Himalayan Mountains in northwestern India was carried out. Two of the specimens are described herein as Lamproderma spinisporum, a species new to science. In addition, the material from nort...

Four taxa of nivicolous myxomycetes not previously known to occur in the Himalayan Mountains of northwestern India are reported herein. Information is provided on these taxa (Didymium dubium, Lamproderma ovoideum, L. ovoideum var. cucumer and Trichia alpina), which were recorded as a result of a survey carried out in May 2006. Important morphologic...

Abstract Inocybe mixtilis constitutes a complex of species characterized by nodulose-angulose spores, absence of cortina and a more or less bulbous marginate stipe that is not darkening when desiccated. In order to elucidate species limits within the I. mixtilis complex, an ITS-RPB2 phylogeny was performed and interpreted using morphological and ec...

Nomenclatural type definitions are one of the most important concepts in biological nomenclature. Being physical objects that can be re-studied by other researchers, types permanently link taxonomy (an artificial agreement to classify biological diversity) with nomenclature (an artificial agreement to name biological diversity). Two proposals to am...

A new classification of several clitocyboid taxa is here proposed to accommodate results from multigenic phylogenetic inference. The analysis of ITS rDNA as well as a combined dataset including 18S and 28S rDNA, tef1 and rpb2 data, support significantly a shared monophyletic origin of the genera Pseudoclitocybe, Musumecia and Pogonoloma, and the sp...

The rare myxomycete Arcyriatella congregata , previously known only from Brazil, is redescribed from Mexican material. LM and SEM photographs of the most important micro- and macroscopic characters are provided.

Se cita por primera vez para Chile Amanita phalloides (Vaill. ex Fr.) Secr., junto a su descripción macro y microscópica, y algunos aspectos de su ecología. Se aporta infomación sobre sus toxinas, métodos dedetección y cuadro clínico de la intoxicación faloidiana.

Se citan cinco taxa de Boletaceae (s. lato) que fructifican en los bosques del Sur de Chile. Se aportan microfotografias de sus caracteres más importantes y se mencionan aspectos ecológicos. Suillus tomentosus(Kauffman) Singer Snell & Dick, se cita por primera vez para Chile.

A multigene phylogenetic analysis of Genabea, Myrmecocystis and related genera in Pyronemataceae was conducted to establish genetically supported generic limits. The nuc rDNA 28S gene, translation elongation factor 1-α (TEF1) and RNA polymerase II second largest subunit gene (RPB2) significantly supported the monophyly of several distinct genera of...