%0 Journal Article %A Stamets, Paul E. %A Didukh, Marina Ya. %A da Eira, Augusto Ferreira %A Wasser, Solomon P. %A de Amazonas, Maria Angela L. %D 2002 %I Begell House %N 4 %P 24 %R 10.1615/IntJMedMushr.v4.i4.10 %T Is a Widely Cultivated Culinary-Medicinal Royal Sun Agaricus (the Himematsutake Mushroom) Indeed Agaricus blazei Murrill? %U https://www.dl.begellhouse.com/journals/708ae68d64b17c52,72e968661ff5d957,0d3487e1197d1f4e.html %V 4 %X 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. %8 2002-12-01