Three new species of Iodosphaeria (Xylariomycetidae): I.chiayiensis, I.jinghongensis and I.thailandica.

ABSTRACT: Three fungal specimens (two sexual and one asexual) were collected during fieldwork conducted in China, Taiwan and Thailand. Both sexual morphs share superficial, black ascomata surrounded by flexuous setae; 8-spored, unitunicate, cylindrical asci, with J+, apical ring, and ellipsoidal to allantoid, aseptate, guttulate ascospores. The asexual morph has ceratosporium-like conidia arising from aerial hyphae with a single arm and are usually attached or with 2-3 arms, brown, often with a subglobose to conical cell at the point of attachment. Morphological examinations and phylogenetic analyses of a combined LSU-ITS dataset via maximum likelihood and Bayesian analyses indicated that these three collections were new species. Iodosphaeriachiayiensis (sexual morph), I.thailandica

SUBMITTER: Dissanayake LS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8760234 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature