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Morphology and phylogeny reveal two novel Coryneum species from China.

ABSTRACT: Coryneum is currently the sole genus of Coryneaceae in Diaporthales, distinguished from other diaporthalean genera by transversely distoseptate brown conidia. However, Coryneum species are presently difficult to identify because of variability and overlap of morphological characters and the lack of sequence data for most described species. During fungal collection trips in China, 13 Coryneum isolates were obtained from cankered branches of Ilex and Quercus. Morphological and phylogenetic analyses (ITS, LSU, TEF1-? and RPB2) revealed that these strains belong to two new species (viz. Coryneumilicis sp. nov. and C.songshanense sp. nov.), and three known species, C.gigasporum, C.sinense, and C.suttonii. Coryneumilicis has larger conidia and more distosepta than most Coryneum species. Coryneumsongshanense was similar to C.sinense from the same host genus, Quercus, in conidial length, but distinct in conidial width and by molecular data.

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PROVIDER: S-EPMC6637033 | biostudies-literature | 2019

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Morphology and phylogeny reveal two novel Coryneum species from China.

Jiang Ning N Voglmayr Hermann H Tian Cheng-Ming CM

MycoKeys 20190710

Coryneum is currently the sole genus of Coryneaceae in Diaporthales, distinguished from other diaporthalean genera by transversely distoseptate brown conidia. However, Coryneum species are presently difficult to identify because of variability and overlap of morphological characters and the lack of sequence data for most described species. During fungal collection trips in China, 13 Coryneum isolates were obtained from cankered branches of Ilex and Quercus. Mor ...[more]

PMID: 31341400

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