Four new species of Entoloma subgenus Pouzarella from India

Four new species of Entoloma s.l. subgenus Pouzarella ( Entoloma wayanadense , E. peechiense, E. silvanum, and E. tropicum ) collected from different parts of Kerala State, India are documented here. Descriptions, photographs and comparisons with phenetically similar species are provided. Sequences of the nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer region (ITS) and the nuclear ribosomal large subunit (nrLSU) region of the new species were obtained and used in BLASTn searches and pairwise sequence alignment to support the morphological data and the novelty of the species. A key to the species of Entoloma subg. Pouzarella known from Kerala is provided.