Lysurus fossatti

HERNANDEZ CAFFOT, MARIA LUCIANA; DRECHSLER-SANTOS, E. RICARDO; FRANCISCO KUHAR; ANDERS DAHLBERG

Córdoba

Workshop; II Workshop de Listas Rojas de Hongos de Sudamérica.; 2022

FFungi. Micolab-Universidad Santa Catarina. IUCN-SSC-FUNCC. The Mohamed bin Zayed- Species Conservation Found

Why suggested for a Global Red List Assessment? Lysurus fossatii was described as a new species in 2022 (Hernandez Caffot et al. 2022). The original collection was recorded from Cordoba province in 2013 and it was found within the Espinal Phytogeographic Province. The Espinal forest is a highly threatened dry ecosystem and their vast distribution has become patchy and only remains around 10% (ca. 3.500 km2) of its original extent in Argentina, with only 1.100 km2 included in protected areas (Zeballos et al 2020). This may result in loss of microhabitat favorable for Lysurus fossatii. There were no records until 2020 when data and images of the species came in from Sierra de la Ventana, Buenos Aires province at the Pampean Phytogeographic Province (Hernandez Caffot et al. 2022). Lysurus fossatii is a large species and very distinctive, and several mycological surveys have been made to the Espinal forests and to Sierra de la Ventana since its first findings, but there are no new records