Breadth of Strain Diversity


Species in the collection with greatest range of strains from different geographic regions and habitats (number of strains in parentheses)

Various Strain Ranges
5-10 STRAINS11-25 STRAINS> 25 STRAINS
A. delicata (5)A. scrobiculata (12)Ar. trappei (26)
A. spinosa (5)A. mellea (12)P. occultum (32)
S. deserticola (5)Gi. gigantea (12)C. claroideum (51)
D. epigaea (6)Gi. margarita (15)C. etunicatum YV ^^ (53)
Gi. albida (6)C. luteum (16)R. clarus (53)
S. constrictum (6)D. spurca (16)F. mosseae (78)
A. koskei (7)C. pellucida (18)A. morrowiae (79)
S. dipurpurascens (7)D. heterogama (18)C. etunicatum (106)
P. mirificum ^ (7)Am. leptoticha (19)R. intraradices (112)
R. diaphanus (9)Gi. rosea (20 
A. colombiana (10)D. eburnea (22) 
C. candidum (10)S. calospora (22) 

^ined.

^^yellow variant that LSU sequences group with C. etunicatum