Diversity of the genus Sugiyamaella and description of two new species from rotting wood in China

By

Shi, Cheng-Feng
Zhang, Kai-Hong
Chai, Chun-Yue
Yan, Zhen-Li
Hui, Feng-Li

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2021

Original Publication

MycoKeys

Volume

77

Pages

27--39

Subjects

Phylogeny , rotted wood-inhabiting yeast , Sugiyamaella , taxonomy , Trichomonascaceae

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers 2011-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.77.60077

 

Abstract

Species of the genus Sugiyamaella (Trichomonascaceae, Saccharomycetales), found in rotting wood in China, were investigated using morphology and the molecular phylogeny of a combined ITS and nrLSU dataset. Nine taxa were collected in China: two were new species (viz. Sugiyamaella chuxiongsp. nov. and S. yunanensissp. nov.) and seven were known species, S. americana, S. ayubii, S. novakii, S. paludigena, S. valenteae, S. valdiviana and S. xiaguanensis. The two new species are illustrated and their morphology and phylogenetic relationships with other Sugiyamaella species are discussed. Our results indicate a potentially great diversity of Sugiyamaella spp. inhabiting rotting wood in China just waiting to be discovered.