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Issue: Vol. 348 No. 2: 27 April 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-04-27
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.348.2.4
Page range: 99–108
Abstract views: 25
PDF downloaded: 1

Lecanicillium subprimulinum (Cordycipitaceae, Hypocreales), a novel species from Baoshan, Yunnan

1. Engineering and Research Center for Southwest Bio-Pharmaceutical Resources of National Education Ministry of China, Guizohu University, Guiyang 550025, China 2. Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand 3. Key Laboratory for Plant Biodiversity and Biogeography of East Asia (KLPB), Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, 650201, Yunnan, P.R. China
Department of Crop Sciences, College of Agricultural and Marine Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, PO Box 8, 123 Al Khoud, Oman
Department of Health Sciences, Faculty of Science, University of Mauritius, Reduit, Mauritius
Azad Housing Society, No. 128/1-J, Curca, P.O. Goa Velha 403108, India
1. Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand 2. Key Laboratory for Plant Biodiversity and Biogeography of East Asia (KLPB), Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, 650201, Yunnan, P.R. China 3. World Agro Forestry Centre, East and Central Asia, 132 Lanhei Road, Kunming 650201, Yunnan China 4 Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand
Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand
Department of Crop Sciences, College of Agricultural and Marine Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, PO Box 8, 123 Al Khoud, Oman
Engineering and Research Center for Southwest Bio-Pharmaceutical Resources of National Education Ministry of China, Guizohu University, Guiyang 550025, China
asexual morph hyphomycete multi-gene phylogeny Sordariomycetes taxonomy Fungi

Abstract

In this paper, we report a new asexual-morph taxon belonging to the family Cordycipitaceae (Hypocreales), which is associated with a sexual morph of an ophioceras-like taxon on submerged wood collected from Baoshan, Yunnan, China. Morphologically, this new taxon is similar to known asexual morphs of Lecanicillium and characterized by conidiophores arising from hyaline hyphae, with gregarious, ellipsoid to ovoid, aseptate conidia. Phylogenetic analyses of a combined LSU, SSU, tef1-α and ITS sequence dataset positions our taxon in Cordycipitaceae and close to Lecanicillium sp. (CBS 639.85) and L. primulinum. Lecanicillium subprimulinum is introduced as a new species with support from molecular data.