Fungal Planet description sheets: 128-153

Abstract

Novel species of microfungi described in the present study include the following from Australia: Catenulostroma corymbiae from Corymbia, Devriesia stirlingiae from Stirlingia, Penidiella carpentariae from Carpentaria, Phaeococcomyces eucalypti from Eucalyptus, Phialophora livistonae from Livistona, Phyllosticta aristolochiicola from Aristolochia, Clitopilus austroprunulus on sclerophyll forest litter of Eucalyptus regnans and Toxicocladosporium posoqueriae from Posoqueria. Several species are also described from South Africa, namely: Ceramothyrium podocarpi from Podocarpus, Cercospora chrysanthemoides from Chrysanthemoides, Devriesia shakazului from Aloe, Penidiella drakensbergensis from Protea, Strelitziana cliviae from Clivia and Zasmidium syzygii from Syzygium. Other species include Bipolaris microstegii from Microstegium and Synchaetomella acerina from Acer (USA), Brunneiapiospora austropalmicola from Rhopalostylis (New Zealand), Calonectria pentaseptata from Eucalyptus and Macadamia (Vietnam), Ceramothyrium melastoma from Melastoma (Indonesia), Collembolispora aristata from stream foam (Czech Republic), Devriesia imbrexigena from glazed decorative tiles (Portugal), Microcyclospora rhoicola from Rhus (Canada), Seiridium phylicae from Phylica (Tristan de Cunha, Inaccessible Island), Passalora lobeliae-fistulosis from Lobelia (Brazil) and Zymoseptoria verkleyi from Poa (The Netherlands). Valsalnicola represents a new ascomycete genus from Alnus (Austria) and Parapenidiella a new hyphomycete genus from Eucalyptus (Australia). Morphological and culture characteristics along with ITS DNA barcodes are also provided.

Keywords: ITS DNA barcodes; LSU; novel fungal species; systematics.

Neighbour-joining tree obtained using a distance analysis with a general time reversible (GTR) substitution model on the partial 28S nrRNA gene alignment (817 nucleotides including alignment gaps) as implemented in PAUP v. 4.0b10 (Swofford 2003). Novel species are indicated in a bold font and the orders are indicated on the right-hand side of the figure. The scale bar indicates the number of substitutions per site and the bootstrap support values (based on 1000 replicates) are shown by colour-coded dots for values > 79 % (see legend on figure). The tree was rooted to a sequence of Saccharomyces cerevisiae (GenBank Z73326.)

Valsalnicola oxystoma

Bipolaris microstegii

Brunneiapiospora austropalmicola

Phyllosticta aristolochiicola

Calonectria pentaseptata

Phaeococcomyces eucalypti

Penidiella drakensbergensis

Ceramothyrium melastoma

Strelitziana cliviae

Ceramothyrium podocarpi

Phialophora livistonae

Devriesia shakazului

Zasmidium syzygii

Devriesia stirlingiae

Cercospora chrysanthemoides

Zymoseptoria verkleyi

Toxicocladosporium posoqueriae

Catenulostroma corymbiae

Penidiella carpentariae

Seiridium phylicae

Microcyclospora rhoicola

Fig. 1

Consensus phylogram (50 % majority rule) of 15 002 trees resulting from a Bayesian inference analysis of an ITS sequence alignment using MrBayes v. 3.1.2. Posterior probabilities indicated with colour-coded branches (see legend).

Collembolispora aristata

Synchaetomella acerina

Devriesia imbrexigena

Passalora lobeliae-fistulosis

Clitopilus austroprunulus