Forecasting the number of species of asexually reproducing fungi (Ascomycota and Basidiomycota)

Wijayawardene, Nalin N.; Phillips, Alan J. L.; Pereira, Diana Santos; Dai, Dong-Qin; Aptroot, André; Monteiro, Josiane Santana; Druzhinina, Irina S.; Cai, Feng; Fan, Xiaoqin; Selbmann, Laura; Coleine, Claudia; Castañeda-Ruíz, Rafael F.; Kukwa, Martin; Flakus, Adam; Fiuza, Patrícia Oliveira; Kirk, Paul M.; Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C.; Arachchi, Ilesha S. leperuma; Suwannarach, Nakarin; Tang, Lizhou; Boekhout, Teun; Tan, Chen Shuhui; Jayasinghe, R. P. Prabath K.; Thines, Marco

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“…In this study, we identified and introduced three new species in Didymellaceae ( Ectophoma phoenicis , Remotididymella fici - microcarpae , and Stagonosporopsis pedicularis - striatae ) along with a new host and locality record of Allophoma tropica based on polyphasic approaches according to the procedure of [ 61 , 62 , 63 ]. The guidelines for introducing novel species have been discussed in [ 64 , 65 ] were followed.…”

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Plant-Associated Novel Didymellaceous Taxa in the South China Botanical Garden (Guangzhou, China)

Kularathnage

Senanayake

Wanasinghe

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The South China Botanical Garden (SCBG), one of the largest and oldest botanical gardens in China, conserves important plant germplasms of endangered species. Therefore, ensuring tree health and studying the associated mycobiome of the phyllosphere is essential to maintaining its visual aesthetics. During a survey of plant-associated microfungal species in SCBG, we collected several coelomycetous taxa. Phylogenetic relationships were evaluated based on the analyses of ITS, LSU, RPB2, and β-tubulin loci. The morphological features of the new collections were compared with those of existing species, emphasizing close phylogenetic affinities. Based on the morphological comparisons and multi-locus phylogeny, we introduce three new species. These are Ectophoma phoenicis sp. nov., Remotididymella fici-microcarpae sp. nov., and Stagonosporopsis pedicularis-striatae sp. nov. In addition, we describe a new host record for Allophoma tropica in the Didymellaceae. Detailed descriptions and illustrations are provided along with notes comparing allied species.

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Plant-Associated Novel Didymellaceous Taxa in the South China Botanical Garden (Guangzhou, China)

Kularathnage

Senanayake

Wanasinghe

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“…One of the important cryptic fungal phytopathogens with species complexes is Phyllosticta (Cai et al 2011). Cryptic species directly impact the number of fungal species (Wijayawardene et al 2021b(Wijayawardene et al , 2022b. Since most Phyllosticta species are cryptic and share similar morphological features, it is arduous to pinpoint homologous characters and delineate these taxa.…”

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Phyllosticta taxa from northern Thailand and southern European Russia: a novel species and four new host records

Gomdola

Jayawardena

McKenzie

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Phyllosticta is a cosmopolitan group of fungi found on various host plants, occurring as pathogens, endophytes and saprobes. Diseases caused by Phyllosticta commonly include leaf and fruit spots that affect economically important plants. The genus is characterized mainly by aseptate and hyaline conidia and ascospores. However, its conidia are surrounded by a mucilaginous sheath, with a single mucoid apical appendage while ascospores exhibit a mucoid cap at both ends. Given that many Phyllosticta taxa are cryptic and share similar morphological features, it is arduous to depict taxonomically relevant characters solely on the basis of morphological and ecological features. Coupled with morphological description, multi-locus phylogenetic analyses of species comprising complexes are used to broadly describe this genus and understand species boundaries. Despite several published taxonomic revisions and enumerations of Phyllosticta species, there is still considerable confusion when identifying these taxa. Herein, we introduce a new species (P. chiangmaiensis) and three new host records (P. capitalensis) in Thailand, and one new host and country record (P. citribrasiliensis) in Russia. We provide an updated phylogenetic tree, including all Phyllosticta species with sequence data.

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“…Hyphomycetes, a group of anamorphic Ascomycota , are highly diverse in aquatic and terrestrial habitats and distributed worldwide on many natural substrates such as plant tissues, wood and bark, dung, insects and other arthropods and other fungi including lichens [ 1 ]. More than 30,000 species of asexual fungi are recorded worldwide, with 2500 hyphomyceteous genera [ 2 , 3 ]. The most comprehensive occurrence of this group is in the northern temperate regions, with little recorded in tropical and subtropical areas [ 1 , 3 ].…”

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Morphology and Multigene Phylogeny Revealed Three New Species of Helminthosporium (Massarinaceae, Pleosporales) from China

Liu

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Saprobic hyphomycetes are highly diverse on plant debris. Over the course of our mycological surveys in southern China, three new Helminthosporium species, H. guanshanense sp. nov., H. jiulianshanense sp. nov. and H. meilingense sp. nov., collected on dead branches of unidentified plants, were introduced by morphological and molecular phylogenetic analyses. Multi-loci (ITS, LSU, SSU, RPB2 and TEF1) phylogenetic analyses were performed using maximum-likelihood and Bayesian inference to infer their taxonomic positions within Massarinaceae. Both molecular analyses and morphological data supported H. guanshanense, H. jiulianshanense and H. meilingense as three independent taxa within Helminthosporium. A list of accepted Helminthosporium species with major morphological features, host information, locality and sequence data was provided. This work expands our understanding of the diversity of Helminthosporium-like taxa in Jiangxi Province, China.

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Forecasting the number of species of asexually reproducing fungi (Ascomycota and Basidiomycota)

Cited by 37 publications

References 279 publications

Plant-Associated Novel Didymellaceous Taxa in the South China Botanical Garden (Guangzhou, China)

Plant-Associated Novel Didymellaceous Taxa in the South China Botanical Garden (Guangzhou, China)

Phyllosticta taxa from northern Thailand and southern European Russia: a novel species and four new host records

Morphology and Multigene Phylogeny Revealed Three New Species of Helminthosporium (Massarinaceae, Pleosporales) from China

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