Three new species of Neopestalotiopsis and Pseudopestalotiopsis (Sporocadaceae, Amphisphaeriales) associated with shrub leaf diseases from Fujian, China

By

Heng, Zhi-Ang
Mu, Taichang
Keyhani, Nemat O.
Yang, Li-Xia
Zheng, Ming-Hai
Lv, Hua-Jun
Zhao, Zhi-Ying
Mao, Yu-Chen
Shang, Jun-Ya
Yang, Jiao
Pu, Hui-Li
Lin, Yong-Sheng
Zhu, Meng-Jia
Dang, Yu-Xiao
Wu, Dong-Mei
Qiu, Zhen-Xing
Qiu, Jun-Zhi
Guan, Xia-Yu

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2025-6-24

Original Publication

MycoKeys

Volume

119

Pages

1--28

Subjects

Morphology , multigene phylogeny , multigene phylogeny , multigene phylogeny , new taxa , Pestalotioid fungi

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers 2011-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.119.148647

 

Abstract

Neopestalotiopsis and Pseudopestalotiopsis are classified as pestalotioid fungi, include a diverse range of plant pathogenic, endophytic and saprobic species and are widely distributed in tropical and temperate climates. These fungi are associated with a wide variety of plants worldwide and are exemplified by multi-septate conidia with appendages at both ends. Phytopathogenic members cause various plant diseases, for example, leaf spot, fruit rot, canker, blight and various infections affecting palm, mango, blueberry, tea and other important crops. In this study, six isolates were collected from diseased leaves of Litsea verticillata, Ixora chinensis and an unidentified shrub in Fujian Province, China. Based on morphological characteristics and molecular phylogenetic analyses of combined nucleotide sequences of internal transcribed spacer regions of rDNA (ITS), the partial translation elongation factor 1-alpha gene (tef1) and partial beta-tubulin gene (tub2), three new species Neopestalotiopsis litseaesp. nov., Neo. longqishanensissp. nov. and Pseudopestalotiopsis zhangzhouensissp. nov. are described and illustrated herein.