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Issue: Vol. 675 No. 2: 3 Dec. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-12-03
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.675.2.7
Page range: 167-176
Abstract views: 127
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Spegazzinia cryptica sp. nov. (Didymosphaeriaceae) from the western Pacific monsoon region

School of Forestry and Resource Conservation, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
Faculty of Agriculture and Life Science, Hirosaki University, 3 Bunkyo-cho, Hirosaki, Aomori 036-8561, Japan
Faculty of Agriculture and Life Science, Hirosaki University, 3 Bunkyo-cho, Hirosaki, Aomori 036-8561, Japan
Faculty of Agriculture and Life Science, Hirosaki University, 3 Bunkyo-cho, Hirosaki, Aomori 036-8561, Japan
School of Forestry and Resource Conservation, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan
biodiversity dematiaceous hyphomycetes Japan Taiwan Fungi

Abstract

A new species of Spegazzinia on dead leaves of Cyperaceae and Poaceae from Taiwan and Japan is described and illustrated as S. cryptica. By the four to eight cells comprising the body of the α conidia, the species differs from other species of Spegazzinia. Although this fungus could hardly be distinguished from S. musae by morphology, it is revealed as a new species by diagnostic bases and phylogenetic analyses of nucrDNA and translation elongation factor 1-α gene (ITS/LSU and TEF) sequences.

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