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Issue: Vol. 690 No. 2: 28 Feb. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-02-28
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.690.2.3
Page range: 212-230
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Additions to Termitomyces aurantiacus growing termite comb-associated fungi

Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand. Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization, College of Biology and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing, China.
Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization, College of Biology and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing, China
Gardening and Horticulture Department, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Xishuangbanna, China
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand. Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization, College of Biology and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing, China.
Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Department of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization, College of Biology and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing, China
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Macrotermitinae comb-soil fungi subterranean fungus-growing termites taxonomy Xishuangbanna Fungi

Abstract

The Macrotermitinae termites, the only lineage that maintains and cultivates Termitomyces species as nutritional ectosymbionts, resemble human agricultural activities. Found in savannah and rainforest ecosystems across Africa and Asia, these termites enhance the physical and chemical properties of soil and influence the composition of microbial communities. However, fungus-growing termites also pose significant threats to agriculture and forestry. Termitomyces species, dominant fungi propagated within biomass-containing cork-like structures (“fungus comb”), also contain trace amounts of non-termitomyces fungi. In the summer of 2022, we collected combs of the subterranean fungus-growing termites that cultivate Termitomyces aurantiacus from the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden. To validate our results, we used a culture-dependent method to isolate fungi residing in termite fungus gardens. This method was further validated by confirming their taxonomic classification through morphological and phylogenetic results. The findings of these studies led to the identification of one new (Geotrichum xishuangbannaensis) and four known (Paecilomyces formosus, Paecilomyces lagunculariae, Pleurostoma richardsiae, and Pseudallescheria angusta) species. We provide comprehensive descriptions, photographic illustrations of morphological characteristics, and phylogenetic trees of the taxa.

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Yang, E., Karunarathna, S.C., Shao, S., Han, L., Samarakoon, M.C., Elgorban, A.M., Chiu, C., Tibpromma, S. & Promputtha, I. (2025) Additions to Termitomyces aurantiacus growing termite comb-associated fungi. Phytotaxa 690 (2): 212–230. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.690.2.3