Morphological and phylogenetic characterisation of novel Cytospora species associated with mangroves

By

Norphanphoun, Chada
Raspé, Olivier
Jeewon, Rajesh
Wen, Ting-Chi
Hyde, Kevin D

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2018

Original Publication

NeoBiota : advancing research on alien species and biological invasions

Volume

38

Pages

93-120

Subjects

3 new species , Cytosporaceae , Lumnitzera racemosa , mangroves , Phylogeny , taxonomy , Xylocarpus granatum , Xylocarpus moluccensis

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sophia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.38.28011

 

Abstract

Mangroves are relatively unexplored habitats and have been shown to harbour a number of novel species of fungi. In this study, samples of microfungi were collected from symptomatic branches, stem and leaves of the mangrove species Xylocarpusgranatum, X.moluccensis and Lumnitzeraracemosa and examined morphologically. The phylogeny recovered supports our morphological data to introduce three new species, Cytosporalumnitzericola, C.thailandica and C.xylocarpi. In addition, a combined multi-gene DNA sequence dataset (ITS, LSU, ACT and RPB2) was analysed to investigate phylogenetic relationships of isolates and help in a more reliable species identification.