Five novel species of Curvularia (Pleosporales, Pleosporaceae) isolated from turfgrasses

By

Zhao, Jia-Mei
Peng, Chuan-Xu
Zhang, Qiu-Yue
Li, De-Wei
Huang, Lin

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2025-11-21

Original Publication

MycoKeys

Volume

125

Pages

279--305

Subjects

Fungal diversity , Helminthosporioid fungi , Hyphomycetes , Phylogeny , Pleosporaceae , taxonomy

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers 2011-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.125.168614

 

Abstract

<br> Curvularia<br> , a cosmopolitan fungal genus, occupies various ecological niches, but displays a pronounced tendency to colonise the leaves of plants. In this study, several fungal isolates with similar characteristics in the genus<br> Curvularia<br> were collected from leaf spots of turfgrasses (<br> Cynodon dactylon<br> and<br> Lolium perenne<br> ) in Jiangsu Province, China. Based on the morphological characteristics and three locus phylogeny of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) genes, glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) and translation elongation factor-1 alpha (<br> tef1<br> ), five new species in<br> Curvularia<br> :<br> C. cynodontis<br> ,<br> C. herbicola<br> ,<br> C. loliicola<br> ,<br> C. nanjingensis<br> and<br> C. xuanwuensis<br> , are described hereby. The present study contributes to the understanding of species diversity, taxonomy and phylogeny of<br> Curvularia<br> species in China.<br>