title: Study on species of phylloporus I: Neotropics and North America.
abstract: Seventeen out of the 24 taxa of Phylloporus (Boletaceae) known from the Neotropics are presented here. Complete descriptions, illustrations and a key to the 17 species are provided. Phylloporus alborufus is newly described, and an unnamed species is also described from Costa Rican oak forests. Phylloporus colligatus was recently described from a Dicymbe forest in Guyana. A table of the 24 known New World Phylloporus taxa, their distribution and possible hosts also is presented.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Sistemaitica e Ecologia, Campus 1, Universidade Federal da Paraiba, Cidade Universitária, João Pessoa, PB, 58051-970, Brazil. maliceneves@gmail.com
authors.forename: Maria Alice
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Neves
authors.forename: Roy E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Halling
mesh_terms: D000363:Agaricales / Q000145:classification* / Q000166:cytology