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Issue: Vol. 303 No. 2: 11 April 2017
Type: Article
Published: 2017-04-11
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.303.2.7
Page range: 173–180
Abstract views: 26
PDF downloaded: 52

Two new keratinophilic fungal species

Institute of Fungus Resource, College of Life Sciences, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou 550025, China School of Chemistry and Life Sciences, Guizhou Normal College, Guiyang, Guizhou 550018, China
Institute of Fungus Resource, College of Life Sciences, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou 550025, China
Institute of Fungus Resource, College of Life Sciences, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou 550025, China
Institute of Fungus Resource, College of Life Sciences, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou 550025, China
Institute of Fungus Resource, College of Life Sciences, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou 550025, China
College of Liquor and food engineering, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou 550025, China
filamentous fungi morphological character phylogeny identification Fungi

Abstract

Two new keratinophilic fungal species, Chrysosporium jingzhouense and C. clavisporum, were isolated from farmland soil of Jingzhou City, Hubei Province, and from plant root soil of Guigang City, Guangxi Province, China, respectively, using child hair as bait. Molecular and morphological characters were used to identify taxonomic status. The phylogeny shows C. jingzhouense is clustered with C. articulatum and C. keratinophilum; while C. clavisporum appears to be related to C. qinghaiense, C. indicum and C. linfenense. These previously described Chrysosporium species can be easily distinguished from our proposed new species based on morphology alone. The holotypes, ex-types and ex-isotypes have been deposited in the Institute of Fungus Resources (GZAC).