PhytotaxaPub Date : 2024-05-23DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.650.1.2
JIA Y. LIN, LING-HAN GUO, GUANG-MEI LI, MING ZHANG, DE-CHUN Xie, SHU-XIAN HE, Kun L. Yang
{"title":"Pseudoplectania mystica (Ascomycota, Pezizales), a new cup fungus with an endophytic habit of a broad range of host plants","authors":"JIA Y. LIN, LING-HAN GUO, GUANG-MEI LI, MING ZHANG, DE-CHUN Xie, SHU-XIAN HE, Kun L. Yang","doi":"10.11646/phytotaxa.650.1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.650.1.2","url":null,"abstract":"A cup fungus producing ascomata on senescing to dead rhizomes of bamboo in East China is described as Pseudoplectania mystica sp. nov. (Ascomycota, Pezizales) based on morphological, ecological and phylogenetic evidence. Some sequences of unidentified endophytic fungi uploaded to the GenBank database by other researchers were also identified as P. mystica in our phylogeny. By checking the original literature of these sequences, P. mystica was further found to act as an endophyte in a broad range of host plants including Aegiceras, Cinnamomum, Dendrobium and Lindera, probably lurking in the tissues of the host plants as invisible mycelium in most cases and only producing visible ascomata following senescence of the host tissues. Such ecology and a combination of all its morphological characteristics make P. mystica recognizable from other known species of Pseudoplectania. This study contributes to the understanding of the species diversity and lifecycle of Pseudoplectania.","PeriodicalId":506155,"journal":{"name":"Phytotaxa","volume":"21 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141105090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PhytotaxaPub Date : 2024-05-21DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.649.3.5
HONG-JIN Wei
{"title":"Selliguea quinquefida (Polypodiaceae), a new calciphilous species from a karst area in Guangxi, China","authors":"HONG-JIN Wei","doi":"10.11646/phytotaxa.649.3.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.649.3.5","url":null,"abstract":"Selliguea quinquefida (Polypodiaceae), a new calciphilous species from Guangxi, China, is described and illustrated. The new species is the second within the genus with simple and palmate fronds and unique in having simple laminae with cordiform bases. It grows in a peculiar habitat with its rhizome creeping deeply within hardened chalky soils on limestone under relatively dry conditions and always bears palmately 5-lobed fronds with pentagonal shape when fully developed. The differences and habitats among S. quinquefida and all other species with palmate fronds in the genus are discussed.","PeriodicalId":506155,"journal":{"name":"Phytotaxa","volume":"35 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141113580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PhytotaxaPub Date : 2024-05-21DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.649.3.1
Maria M. Sosa, M. B. Angulo, Valeria Amarilla, Mauricio Landi, J. E. Florentín
{"title":"Diversity and conservation of native Argentine species of Gratioleae (Plantaginaceae)","authors":"Maria M. Sosa, M. B. Angulo, Valeria Amarilla, Mauricio Landi, J. E. Florentín","doi":"10.11646/phytotaxa.649.3.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.649.3.1","url":null,"abstract":"The tribe Gratioleae is the richest in species of the family Plantaginaceae, with 30 genera and more than 300 species growing mainly in South America, which could be considered a center of diversity. Argentina is one of the countries with the largest number of species (35 belonging to 6 genera) of the tribe. Although the Argentinean Flora and a checklist have been published, both are outdated. With this background, we presented an updated summary of the diversity of species belonging to the tribe Gratioleae in Argentina, with detailed analysis of their geographic distribution, their conservation status according to the categories established by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), as well as an exhaustive study on the distribution of their richness and threat patterns in different ecoregions of the country. In addition, an evaluation of the proportion of threatened species in relation to Argentina’s Protected Areas (PAs) was evaluated. The results showed that species of Gratioleae were present in 14 ecoregions, distributed predominantly in the Humid and Dry Chaco, and the Alto Paraná Atlantic Forest. Eighteen species of the 37 Argentine taxa, including two endemic taxa, are categorized as threatened (VU, EN, or CR) (47%). Although some of these species are partially protected due to their distribution in PAs, others lack this protection. Our findings contribute to the knowledge of the geographic distribution of Gratioleae within the Argentine flora, and its conservation status.","PeriodicalId":506155,"journal":{"name":"Phytotaxa","volume":"130 22","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141114929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PhytotaxaPub Date : 2024-05-21DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.649.3.4
Kaiyue Luo, Yuan Yuan, Hong-Gao Liu, M. Ghobad-Nejhad, YU-CHENG DAI
{"title":"Luteoporia tenuissima sp. nov. (Polyporales, Basidiomycota), evidenced by morphological characteristics and phylogenetic analysis","authors":"Kaiyue Luo, Yuan Yuan, Hong-Gao Liu, M. Ghobad-Nejhad, YU-CHENG DAI","doi":"10.11646/phytotaxa.649.3.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.649.3.4","url":null,"abstract":"A new poroid wood-inhabiting fungus in the Polyporales, Luteoporia tenuissima, from southwest China, is described based on morphological and molecular evidence. Luteoporia tenuissima is characterized by annual, resupinate basidiomata with lemon chrome pores when fresh, becoming cinnamon buff when dry, tissues becoming purple in KOH, a monomitic hyphal system, generative hyphae thick-walled and bearing clamp connections, and ellipsoid, smooth basidiospores measuring 2.9–3.8 × 1.9–2.4 µm. The phylogenetic analysis based on ITS + nLSU rDNA sequences shows that the new species belongs to Luteoporia, forming a monophyletic lineage with strong support, clustering with L. albomarginata and L. citriniporia. Both morphological characteristics and molecular phylogeny confirm the placement of the new species within the genus Luteoporia. A full description, illustration, phylogeny of the new species, and comparisons with morphologically similar or phylogenetically related species are provided. In addition, an identification key is provided for the currently known Luteoporia species.","PeriodicalId":506155,"journal":{"name":"Phytotaxa","volume":"98 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141116187","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PhytotaxaPub Date : 2024-05-21DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.649.3.3
Barış Özüdoğru, H. Altinözlü, Kurtulus Özgisi
{"title":"Hesperis sivasica (Brassicaceae), A new crucifer species from inner Anatolia","authors":"Barış Özüdoğru, H. Altinözlü, Kurtulus Özgisi","doi":"10.11646/phytotaxa.649.3.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.649.3.3","url":null,"abstract":"Hesperis sivasica, from the Kangal district of Sivas Province in inner Anatolia (Türkiye), is described as a new species based on morphological and molecular evidence. Although it is not morphologically closely related to the known species of Hesperis, it resembles H. kotschyi in trichome types but differs from it in pedicel, flowers, and fruit characteristics. In molecular phylogenetic analyses based on the Nuclear-encoded ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region, H. sivasica belongs to the same clade as H. bottae and H. thyrsoidea, but it is easily distinguishable from both species based on life form, trichome types, flowers, and fruit characters. Diagnostic morphological characters, full description, SEM microphotographs, and detailed field photographs are provided. Remarks on the new species' habitat, ecology, phenology, distribution, and conservation status are also given.","PeriodicalId":506155,"journal":{"name":"Phytotaxa","volume":"22 15","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141118186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Gynostemma verrucosum (Cucurbitaceae), a new species with verrucose stem from Guangxi, China","authors":"XUE-YAN Huang, DONG-XIN Nong, BAO-YOU HUANG, LI-XIANG Yao, JI-JUN Yao, LI-YING Yu, Luqi Huang","doi":"10.11646/phytotaxa.649.3.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.649.3.7","url":null,"abstract":"Gynostemma verrucosum, a new species discovered in northwestern Guangxi, China, is described and illustrated. This new species is similar to G. compressum in having obtriangular capsules and is clearly distinguished from the latter by its unique verrucose stems, puberulent at the nodes, leaves usually 9-foliolate, capsules more than 1 cm in width, large seeds with surface spiniform-tuberculate and margin serrate and sulcate.","PeriodicalId":506155,"journal":{"name":"Phytotaxa","volume":"49 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141113358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PhytotaxaPub Date : 2024-05-21DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.649.3.2
M. A. C. Bautista, Vernaluz CHUA-MANGUSSAD, Jehson Cervancia, Rene Alfred Anton Bustamante
{"title":"Psychotria pendens (Rubiaceae, Psychotrieae), a new ultramafic species from Central Palawan, Philippines","authors":"M. A. C. Bautista, Vernaluz CHUA-MANGUSSAD, Jehson Cervancia, Rene Alfred Anton Bustamante","doi":"10.11646/phytotaxa.649.3.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.649.3.2","url":null,"abstract":"Psychotria pendens from the lowland ultramafic forest of Mt. Victoria, Palawan Island, Philippines is herein described as a new species of Rubiaceae. The new species is morphologically similar to P. rubiginosa (Gitingensis species group) by having monochotomous inflorescence and oblanceolate to oblong-elliptic leaves but is distinguished by its large, leaf-like, valvate stipules with biattenuate to biacuminate tips, pendent inflorescence, glabrous abaxial leaf surface, narrowly triangular bracts, and glabrous calyx. Molecular analysis revealed that this newly discovered species belongs to the Pacific Psychotria clade, and is allied to the Philippine species P. luzoniensis and Hawaiian species P. mariniana. The species is assessed as Critically Endangered (CR) based on the IUCN Red List categories and criteria.","PeriodicalId":506155,"journal":{"name":"Phytotaxa","volume":"29 11","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141118212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PhytotaxaPub Date : 2024-05-21DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.649.3.6
Z. Williams, A.E.D. Daniels, D. Cargill
{"title":"On the occurrence of Riccia atromarginata Levier and R. boliviensis Jovet-Ast (Ricciaceae: Marchantiophyta) in the Western Ghats of India","authors":"Z. Williams, A.E.D. Daniels, D. Cargill","doi":"10.11646/phytotaxa.649.3.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.649.3.6","url":null,"abstract":"Riccia atromarginata, a species of broad distribution known from Africa, America, Europe and Asia, was recently collected in the Sirumalai Hills of Southern Western Ghats in Peninsular India and is the first record for the country. The earlier report of this species made by Karadakatti et al. (2023) from the Western Ghats of Karnataka is incorrect. Examination of their herbarium specimen UASB-5452 was found to contain two species—R. boliviensis and the common R. billardierei. Riccia boliviensis, a new record for the Western Ghats, is also reported here. A detailed description of R. atromarginata with images and a distribution map are provided for the indigenous population.","PeriodicalId":506155,"journal":{"name":"Phytotaxa","volume":"42 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141113690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PhytotaxaPub Date : 2024-05-20DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.649.2.4
YU-XIN Zhang, N. Mao, Ting Li, L. Fan
{"title":"Two new species of Infundibulicybe (Omphalinaceae, Agaricales) from northern China","authors":"YU-XIN Zhang, N. Mao, Ting Li, L. Fan","doi":"10.11646/phytotaxa.649.2.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.649.2.4","url":null,"abstract":"Infundibulicybe confusa sp. nov. and I. phaeocentralis sp. nov. were described based on specimens from Shanxi Province in northern China. Morphologically, I. phaeocentralis is similar to I. rufa but the latter is differentiated by its isolated phylogenetic position and varied colors of the basidiomata. Infundibulicybe confusa is similar to I. alkaliviolascens, but I. alkaliviolascens has a pileus that turns violet to purplish pink in KOH and long basidiospores. Our morphological and phylogenetic analyses supported the taxonomic position of the two new species in Infundibulicybe. Additionally, a key to the species of Infundibulicybe in Shanxi Province is provided.","PeriodicalId":506155,"journal":{"name":"Phytotaxa","volume":"30 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141122465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
PhytotaxaPub Date : 2024-05-20DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.649.2.2
Onden P. SRUTHI, K. Rajeshkumar, Shivapura M. GOWRAV, Parayelil A. ANSIL, Sreejith K. ASHTAMOORTHY
{"title":"Morphological and phylogenetic evidence for recognition of a new species of Kirschsteiniothelia, K. agumbensis and validation of five new combinations in Kirschsteiniotheliaceae","authors":"Onden P. SRUTHI, K. Rajeshkumar, Shivapura M. GOWRAV, Parayelil A. ANSIL, Sreejith K. ASHTAMOORTHY","doi":"10.11646/phytotaxa.649.2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.649.2.2","url":null,"abstract":"This study introduces a new species of Kirschsteiniothelia from Agumbe in the central Western Ghats of Karnataka, India. This new species differs from the allied species by its reduced to sessile conidiophores and cylindrical, straight to flexuous, coarsely verrucose to granulate to punctate, 18–41 euseptate elongated conidia. Phylogenetic analyses of combined ITS, LSU and SSU sequence data delineated K. agumbensis as a new lineage allied to Kirschsteiniothelia rostrata under the family Kirschsteiniotheliaceae. Furthermore, pairwise homoplasy index of phylogenetically closely related taxa also confirmed it as a new species.","PeriodicalId":506155,"journal":{"name":"Phytotaxa","volume":"78 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141122760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}