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Issue: Vol. 670 No. 4: 5 Nov. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-11-05
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.670.4.5
Page range: 273-284
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Amphisphaeria hongheensis sp. nov. (Amphisphaeriaceae, Amphisphaeriales) from Yunnan Province, China

Research Center of Natural History and Culture, Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization, Key Laboratory of Yunnan Provincial Department of Education of the Deep-Time Evolution on Biodiversity from the Origin of the Pearl River, College of Biological Resource and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing 655011, P. R. China
Research Center of Natural History and Culture, Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization, Key Laboratory of Yunnan Provincial Department of Education of the Deep-Time Evolution on Biodiversity from the Origin of the Pearl River, College of Biological Resource and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing 655011, P. R. China
Research Center of Natural History and Culture, Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization, Key Laboratory of Yunnan Provincial Department of Education of the Deep-Time Evolution on Biodiversity from the Origin of the Pearl River, College of Biological Resource and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing 655011, P. R. China. Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand. Center of Excellence in Microbial Diversity and Sustainable Utilization, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand.
Research Center of Natural History and Culture, Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization, Key Laboratory of Yunnan Provincial Department of Education of the Deep-Time Evolution on Biodiversity from the Origin of the Pearl River, College of Biological Resource and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing 655011, P. R. China
Center of Excellence in Biotechnology Research (CEBR), King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Research Center of Natural History and Culture, Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization, Key Laboratory of Yunnan Provincial Department of Education of the Deep-Time Evolution on Biodiversity from the Origin of the Pearl River, College of Biological Resource and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing 655011, P. R. China
Research Center of Natural History and Culture, Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization, Key Laboratory of Yunnan Provincial Department of Education of the Deep-Time Evolution on Biodiversity from the Origin of the Pearl River, College of Biological Resource and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing 655011, P. R. China
1 new species morpho-molecular taxonomy woody fungi Fungi

Abstract

Yunnan Province encompasses the highest fungal diversity in China, and novel fungal species are regularly introduced. Several saprobic fungi were collected during surveys of fungi associated with woody plants in Yunnan Province, Southwestern China. The fungi samples were initially identified as Amphisphaeria. Multi-gene phylogenetic analysis based on combined datasets of LSU, ITS, rpb2, and tub2 regions and morphological characteristics confirmed that the samples represent a previously unidentified fungus belonging to Amphisphaeria, which is named A. hongheensis sp. nov. This paper provides a full description, illustrations, and a phylogenetic tree showing the new species' taxonomic placement.

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