PhytotaxaPub Date : 2024-06-05DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.652.2.4
R. Zulfiqar, K. Habib, Hafiza Simab Asghar, Hira Wahab, Mohammad Sohrabi, A. Paukov, Q. Ren, Abdul Nasir Khalid
{"title":"A new species in the genus Circinaria (Lichenized Ascomycetes: Megasporaceae) from Pakistan","authors":"R. Zulfiqar, K. Habib, Hafiza Simab Asghar, Hira Wahab, Mohammad Sohrabi, A. Paukov, Q. Ren, Abdul Nasir Khalid","doi":"10.11646/phytotaxa.652.2.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.652.2.4","url":null,"abstract":"A crustose species Circinaria semicontorta is described here as new to science. It is characterized by a whitish areolate to subverrucose thallus with a thinning, cracked margin, not forming true lobes, areoles with raised whitish pseudocyphellae containing black ostioles of conidiomata, and long pycnoconidia, 12–25 μm. The phylogenetic analysis based on ITS sequences confirms placing the new species within Circinaria.","PeriodicalId":506155,"journal":{"name":"Phytotaxa","volume":"1 4","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141265520","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 : 2024-05-23DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.650.1.9
HONG-ZHI DU, NING-GUO LIU, R. Cheewangkoon, Jiankui Liu
{"title":"Hermatomyces pyriformis sp. nov., a novel dematiaceous hyphomycete (Hermatomycetaceae, Pleosporales) associated with medicinal plants in Yunnan Province, China","authors":"HONG-ZHI DU, NING-GUO LIU, R. Cheewangkoon, Jiankui Liu","doi":"10.11646/phytotaxa.650.1.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.650.1.9","url":null,"abstract":"During investigations of hyphomycetous fungi from medicinal plants in Yunnan Province, China, a novel species of Hermatomyces was discovered. Hermatomyces pyriformis is introduced based on morphology and phylogenetic analyses of combined LSU, ITS, tef1-α and rpb2 sequence data. This fungus is characterized by having sporodochial conidiomata and determinate, hyaline, pyriform conidiogenous cells bearing brown, globose to subglobose or ellipsoidal, muriform lenticular conidia with dark brown center and brown peripheral cells. Phylogenetic results indicated that two isolates of H. pyriformis represent a distinct lineage and can be recognized as a new species. A detailed description and illustration are provided for the new species.","PeriodicalId":506155,"journal":{"name":"Phytotaxa","volume":"110 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141105773","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 : 2024-05-23DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.650.1.6
M. Jiménez, Alisson FIERRO MINDA, Leisberth Vélez-Abarca, Gabriel A. Iturralde, Henry X. GARZÓN-SUÁREZ
{"title":"A new species of Ceratostema (Ericaceae: Vaccinieae) from the province of Morona-Santiago, Ecuador","authors":"M. Jiménez, Alisson FIERRO MINDA, Leisberth Vélez-Abarca, Gabriel A. Iturralde, Henry X. GARZÓN-SUÁREZ","doi":"10.11646/phytotaxa.650.1.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.650.1.6","url":null,"abstract":"A new species of Ceratostema from the southern Ecuadorian province of Morona-Santiago is described and illustrated. The taxonomy and morphological similarities of C. agettiorum with its closely related species are discussed and information about its distribution, habitat, and conservation status is provided.","PeriodicalId":506155,"journal":{"name":"Phytotaxa","volume":"42 44","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141103852","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 : 2024-05-23DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.650.1.8
ZHAO-QING ZENG, XIANG-HUA WANG, Wen-Ying Zhuang
{"title":"New species and new Chinese record of Hypocreaceae from China","authors":"ZHAO-QING ZENG, XIANG-HUA WANG, Wen-Ying Zhuang","doi":"10.11646/phytotaxa.650.1.8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.650.1.8","url":null,"abstract":"Trichoderma clavaticapitatum sp. nov. is described and illustrated based on specimen collected from alpine Hengduan Mountains, Yunnan Province, China. The fungus is characterized by simple, clavate stromata with a capitate fertile part, flask-shaped, subglobose to oblong perithecia, and cylindrical asci containing 16 part-ascospores. Morphological characteristics and analyses of combined RPB2 and TEF1 DNA sequences support its placement in Trichoderma. Differences between the novel species and its close relatives are compared in detail. Additionally, Hypocreopsis rhododendri, a rare fungus, is reported for the first time from the country.","PeriodicalId":506155,"journal":{"name":"Phytotaxa","volume":"11 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141105615","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 : 2024-05-23DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.650.1.5
YING-QUN Xiao, YOU-DI Xu, ZUO-HONG Chen, Zheng-Mi He
{"title":"Lulesia umbrinomarginata (Entolomataceae, Agaricales), a newly discovered species from Southern China","authors":"YING-QUN Xiao, YOU-DI Xu, ZUO-HONG Chen, Zheng-Mi He","doi":"10.11646/phytotaxa.650.1.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.650.1.5","url":null,"abstract":"The current study presents a new Lulesia species, namely L. umbrinomarginata, based on morphological and phylogenetic evidence. The analysis of five-locus dataset (ITS, LSU, RPB2, TEF1, and ATP6) suggests that it belongs to Lulesia subgenus Lulesia. It is distinguished by its clitocyboid basidiome, featuring a greyish brown to wood brown pileus with a darker involute margin, a depressed center and a positive red reaction to KOH, pale yellow-brown decurrent lamellae, a whitish, slightly eccentric stipe that darkens near the apex, an irregular lamellar trama, broadly ellipsoid angular basidiospores ornamented with undulating pustules, and the absence of clamp connections.","PeriodicalId":506155,"journal":{"name":"Phytotaxa","volume":"9 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141105543","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 : 2024-05-23DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.650.1.4
A. Ahmadpour, Y. Ghosta, Fatemeh Alavi, Zahra Alavi, Samantha C. KARUNARATHNA, S. Tibpromma
{"title":"Stemphylium persianum sp. nov., (Pleosporales, Ascomycota) from Iran","authors":"A. Ahmadpour, Y. Ghosta, Fatemeh Alavi, Zahra Alavi, Samantha C. KARUNARATHNA, S. Tibpromma","doi":"10.11646/phytotaxa.650.1.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.650.1.4","url":null,"abstract":"Stemphylium species are saprophytes, or plant pathogens mostly associated with economically important crops. In this study, we isolated Stemphylium strains from grey to brown lesions on the culms of Schoenoplectus sp. (Cyperaceae, Poales). Based on combined morphological characteristics and sequence data of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS‒rDNA) region, parts of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (gapdh) and calmodulin (cmdA) genes, the studied Stemphylium strains were identified and described herein as a new species, S. persianum. The new species is phylogenetically closely related to S. halophilum and S. lycii, however, they are distinguishable based on conidiophores, conidia, and ascospores morphology. Detailed morphological descriptions, illustrations, and phylogenetic relationships with other Stemphylium species are provided herein.","PeriodicalId":506155,"journal":{"name":"Phytotaxa","volume":"38 34","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141103743","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 : 2024-05-23DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.650.1.10
TUAN ANH LE, S. Tagane
{"title":"Glycomis quangtriensis (Rutaceae), a new species from Quang Tri province, central Vietnam","authors":"TUAN ANH LE, S. Tagane","doi":"10.11646/phytotaxa.650.1.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.650.1.10","url":null,"abstract":"A new species of Glycosmis (Rutaceae), G. quangtriensis is described based on the specimens collected from the Limestone Razorback Hill and Rockpile Hill, in Huong Hiep Commune, Dakrong District and Cam Tuyen Commune, Cam Lo District, Quang Tri Province, central Vietnam. Morphological description, photographs, a distribution map, vernacular name, and preliminary conservation status are provided for G. quangtriensis. This species is characterized by shrubby habit 1.5 m tall, simple and subsessile leaves, elliptic-oblong lamina with undulate margin and auriculate base, by which combination it is clearly distinguished from all the previously known species in the genus.","PeriodicalId":506155,"journal":{"name":"Phytotaxa","volume":"44 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141103817","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 : 2024-05-23DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.650.1.1
J. F. Carrión, André M. Amorim
{"title":"A new species of Bernardia (Euphorbiaceae, Acalyphoideae) with stellate trichomes from South America","authors":"J. F. Carrión, André M. Amorim","doi":"10.11646/phytotaxa.650.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.650.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"Bernardia fluviatilis is described as a new species of Euphorbiaceae from the Upper Paraguay River Basin in central South America. A literature review, examination of herbarium specimens, and fieldwork suggest that the new taxon is most similar to B. argentinensis but differs by its young branches covered by a sparsely sericeous indumentum of simple trichomes, usually shorter staminate peduncles, cymules scattered along the axis of the staminate inflorescence, and staminate flower pedicel usually glabrous. Illustrations, photographs, information about the distribution, habitat, and conservation status of the new species, and a key to the morphologically similar species, are also provided.","PeriodicalId":506155,"journal":{"name":"Phytotaxa","volume":"40 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141108006","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 : 2024-05-23DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.650.1.7
ARYA SINDHU, VENUGOPALAN NAIR SARADHAMMA ANILKUMAR, AMBIKA VISWANATHAN PILLLAI, ALEN ALEX PHILIP, JOSE SOJAN, VEERANKUTTY SURESH
{"title":"A new species of Impatiens from the Nelliyampathy region of southern Western Ghats, India","authors":"ARYA SINDHU, VENUGOPALAN NAIR SARADHAMMA ANILKUMAR, AMBIKA VISWANATHAN PILLLAI, ALEN ALEX PHILIP, JOSE SOJAN, VEERANKUTTY SURESH","doi":"10.11646/phytotaxa.650.1.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.650.1.7","url":null,"abstract":"A new species, Impatiens minnamparaensis, belonging to section uniflorae is described and illustrated from southern Western Ghats of Kerala. It is morphologically similar to Impatiens sasidharanii but can easily be distinguished in having ovate-oblong leaf, milky white distal lobe of keel petal, red blotch on lower sepal, pollen architecture and capsule morphology. It is also showing similarities with I. rupicola but differs in shape of lower sepal, shape of distal lobe, number of flowers per axil, anther, pollen and capsule morphology. Impatiens minnamparaensis is assessed here as Endangered based on the categories and criteria of the IUCN Red List.","PeriodicalId":506155,"journal":{"name":"Phytotaxa","volume":"24 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141105374","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":"Multi-locus phylogeny and morphology of Curvularia isolates associated with leaf spots of corn in northern Algeria unveiled two new species, C. algeriensis sp. nov. and C. boudouaouensis sp. nov., with a new record for C. spicifera","authors":"ABDENOUR ZIBANI, OANA SICORA, MONICA MARIAN, HAMIDA BENSLIMANE","doi":"10.11646/phytotaxa.650.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.650.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, we investigated fungi associated with leaf spots of corn in northern Algeria. Fungal isolates were recovered from sampled leaves and were subjected to morphological and molecular identification. Morphology and multi-locus phylogeny, including the internal transcribed spacers 1 and 2 with 5.8S (ITS) along with partial glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) and translation elongation factor 1-α (TEF1) genes, supported the proposal of two new species, Curvularia algeriensis and Curvularia boudouaouensis, as well as a new record for Curvularia spicifera. These two new species are closely related and clustered sisters to Curvularia sporobolicola in the phylogenetic analysis. Morphologically, they can be distinguished by the shape and size of their conidia and conidiophores. The conidia of C. algeriensis are asymmetrically ellipsoidal, with the basal side larger than the apical side. In contrast, those of C. boudouaouensis are ellipsoidal to subcylindrical, and in C. sporobolicola, they are hemi-ellipsoidal. Additionally, the conidia of C. algeriensis are distinctly longer and larger than those of C. boudouaouensis and tend to be slightly longer and narrower than those of C. sporobolicola. C. algeriensis can also be distinguished by its longer conidiophores compared to its closest relatives. Inoculation of corn seedlings supported the pathogenicity of the two new species, as well as the new record.","PeriodicalId":506155,"journal":{"name":"Phytotaxa","volume":"105 10","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-05-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141105852","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}