Three new species of Pestalotiopsis (Amphisphaeriales, Sporocadaceae) were identified by morphology and multigene phylogeny from Hainan and Yunnan, China

By

Yin, Changzhun
Zhang, Zhaoxue
Wang, Shi
Ma, Li-Guo
Zhang, Xiuguo

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2024

Original Publication

MycoKeys

Volume

107

Pages

51--74

Subjects

new species , Pestalotiopsis , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers 2011-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.107.122026

 

Abstract

Pestalotiopsis fungi are widely distributed all over the world, mainly as plant pathogens, endophytes or saprobes from multiple hosts. In this study, the sequence data analysis based on internal transcribed spacer (ITS), partial beta-tubulin (tub2) and partial regions of translation elongation factor 1 alpha (tef1α) combined with morphological characteristics was used to identify strains isolated from the diseased leaves of Aporosa dioica and Rhaphiolepis indica, as well as some rotted leaves from Yunnan and Hainan Provinces in China as three new species, viz., Pestalotiopsis aporosae-dioicaesp. nov., P. nannuoensissp. nov. and P. rhaphiolepidissp. nov.