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Issue: Vol. 375 No. 3: 13 November 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-11-13
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.375.3.1
Page range: 189–202
Abstract views: 15
PDF downloaded: 2

Crossopsorella, a new tropical genus of rust fungi

Departamento de Biologia Celular/Biologia Microbiana, Universidade de Brasília, 70910-900, Brazil.
Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 47907-2054, USA.
Departamento de Biologia Celular/Biologia Microbiana, Universidade de Brasília, 70910-900, Brazil.
Departamento de Fitopatologia, Coleção Micológica, Universidade de Brasília, 70910-900, Brazil.
Departamento de Biologia Celular/Biologia Microbiana, Universidade de Brasília, 70910-900, Brazil. Departamento de Fitopatologia, Coleção Micológica, Universidade de Brasília, 70910-900, Brazil.
Departamento de Biologia Celular/Biologia Microbiana, Universidade de Brasília, 70910-900, Brazil. Departamento de Fitopatologia, Coleção Micológica, Universidade de Brasília, 70910-900, Brazil.
Brazil Cerrado fungi molecular phylogeny neotropical Pucciniales Fungi

Abstract

Prior phylogenetic studies of rust fungi have shown the Phakopsoraceae as polyphyletic. However, most of the ca. 13 genera currently placed in Phakopsoraceae s.l. have not been the subject of phylogenetic analyses. In this study we examine the placement of several species of Crossopsora (Phakopsoraceae) from newly generated nuc 28S rDNA (28S) sequence data. While the type species, C. ziziphi, cannot be excluded from the Phakopsoraceae s.s., several other species, including C. byrsonimae, are not congeneric with the type. Herein we describe the new genus Crossopsorella, based on C. byrsonimae as the type, to accommodate specimens of this species found in four different Byrsonima species.