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Issue: Vol. 213 No. 2: 15 June 2015
Type: Article
Published: 2015-06-15
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.213.2.5
Page range: 122–130
Abstract views: 46
PDF downloaded: 55

Bambusicola loculata sp. nov. (Bambusicolaceae) from bamboo

School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand World Agroforestry Centre, East and Central Asia, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China Institute of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand
Department of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, KSA
Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China Institute of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand
Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China No. 128/1-J, Azad Housing Society, Curca, P.O. Goa Velha-403108, India
The State key lab of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academic of Science, Beijing 100101, China
School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand World Agroforestry Centre, East and Central Asia, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China Institute of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand
Dothideomycetes LSU RPB2 SSU TEF taxonomy Thailand Fungi

Abstract

A new ascomycete species, Bambusicola loculata, inhabiting decaying bamboo, is introduced based on morpho-molecular studies. Bambusicola loculata is characterized by immersed, dark, stromatic and loculate ascostromata, bitunicate, cylindrical-clavate asci and 1-septate, hyaline, narrowly fusiform ascospores, surrounded by an inconspicuous mucilaginous sheath. Maximum likelihood and Bayesian analyses of combined LSU, SSU, RPB2 and TEF1 gene sequence data as well as morphological characters show that our new taxon belongs to Bambusicola, Bambusicolaceae. The new species is compared with other morphologically and phylogenetically similar species.