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Issue: Vol. 331 No. 2: 12 December 2017
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2017-12-12
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.331.2.14
Page range: 295–298
Abstract views: 29
PDF downloaded: 2

A new species of the conidial fungal genus Spegazzinia (Pleosporales,  Didymosphaeriaceae) collected on sugarcane in Cuba

Instituto de Ecología y Sistemática, Carretera Varona 11835 e/ Oriente y Lindero, La Habana 19, CP 11900, Boyeros, La Habana, Cuba
Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, Depto. de Ciências Biológicas, Lab. de Micologia, Avenida Transnordestina s/n, Bairro Novo Horizonte, 44036-900, Feira de Santana, Brazil
CABI, Bakeham Lane, Egham, Surrey, TW20 9TY. Reino Unido
Fungi Cuba hyphomycetes sugarcane taxonomy

Abstract

Spegazzinia affinis sp. nov. collected on dead leaves of sugarcane from Cuba is described and illustrated. It is characterized by lobed and echinulate, brown to mid brown type "b" conidia. Its differences and affinities with S. flabellata, S. sundara and S. tessarthra are discussed and a key to known species of the genus is provided.