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Issue: Vol. 404 No. 5: 22 May 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-05-22
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.404.5.2
Page range: 190–202
Abstract views: 26
PDF downloaded: 1

­­­Talaromyces omanensis sp. nov.: phenotypic and molecular characterization of a novel species isolated from Rhazya stricta in Oman

Department of Crop Sciences, College of Agricultural and Marine Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Al-Khod 123, Oman
Department of Crop Sciences, College of Agricultural and Marine Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Al-Khod 123, Oman
Department of Crop Sciences, College of Agricultural and Marine Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Al-Khod 123, Oman
Department of Pathology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Al-Khod 123, Oman
Department of Crop Sciences, College of Agricultural and Marine Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, Al-Khod 123, Oman
new species biodiversity morphology Talaromyces section Subinflati taxonomy Fungi

Abstract

The endophytic Talaromyces omanensis sp. nov., a new microfungus isolated from the desert plant Rhazya stricta in Oman, is described and illustrated. The new species forms a distinct sister clade to the section Subinflati in the phylogeny of internal transcribed spacer (ITS), β-tubulin (benA) and Calmodulin (CaM). Talaromyces omanensis remains distinct and unique from the other species in the section Subinflati in having monoverticillate conidiophores.