RT Journal Article ID 0d3487e1197d1f4e A1 Stamets, Paul E. A1 Didukh, Marina Ya. A1 da Eira, Augusto Ferreira A1 Wasser, Solomon P. A1 de Amazonas, Maria Angela L. T1 Is a Widely Cultivated Culinary-Medicinal Royal Sun Agaricus (the Himematsutake Mushroom) Indeed Agaricus blazei Murrill? JF International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms JO IJM YR 2002 FD 2002-12-01 VO 4 IS 4 OP 24 AB One of the utmost important edible and culinary-medicinal biotechnological species, Royal Sun Agaricus, known as Agaricus blazei, is revaluated. Analysis of data on this culinary-medicinal mushroom originating from Brazil, and widely cultivated nowadays, showed that it is not A. blazei Murrill, but a species identical with A. blazei Murrill ss. Heinem. On the basis of existing differences the widely cultivated species, currently known as A blazei ss. Heinem., is described as Agaricus brasiliensis sp. nov. A description of this new species, as well as data considering the extent of its relatedness to true A. blazei and its taxonomic position in the genvis Agaricus, are given. PB Begell House LK https://www.dl.begellhouse.com/journals/708ae68d64b17c52,72e968661ff5d957,0d3487e1197d1f4e.html