Conobolbitina australis T. Bau & H. B. Song, comb. nov.

Conobolbitina australis (Singer) T. Bau & H. B. Song comb. nov. Basionym. Pholiotina australis Singer, Beih. Nova Hedwigia 29: 214 (1969). Synonymy. Conocybe australis (Singer) Watling, in Watling & Gregory, Biblthca Mycol. 82: 96 (1981). Notes. This species, originally discovered in Patagonia (Argentina), was treated by Singer (1969) as a taxon closely related to Con. dasypus (originally described as P. dasypus). Horak and Hausknecht (2002) described Con. australis as having a vividly ochre-brown pileus, a white to pallid stipe, a fugacious veil, a subviscid pileipellis with scattered pileocystidia, and, most critically, basidiospores that are finely roughened (with insignificant ornamentation). Based on this morphological concept, we classify this species within sect. Verrucisporae. It is worth noting that no sequence data are available to confirm this placement.