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Issue: Vol. 419 No. 3: 7 October 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-10-07
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.419.3.2
Page range: 268–286
Abstract views: 25
PDF downloaded: 1

Endophytic pestalotiod taxa in Dendrobium orchids

Engineering and Research Center for Southwest Bio-Pharmaceutical Resource of National Education Ministry of China, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, Guizhou Province, People’s Republic of China Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand
School of Life Science and Technology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (UESTC), No. 2006, Xi-Yuan Avenue, High-Tech West Zone, Chengdu 611731, P.R. China
Engineering and Research Center for Southwest Bio-Pharmaceutical Resource of National Education Ministry of China, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, Guizhou Province, People’s Republic of China
Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand
Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research, Private Bag 92170, Auckland, New Zealand.
Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand
Engineering and Research Center for Southwest Bio-Pharmaceutical Resource of National Education Ministry of China, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, Guizhou Province, People’s Republic of China
2 new taxa 2 new records Sporocadaceae multi-loci Fungi

Abstract

Pestalotiod taxa commonly occur in plants as endophytes, pathogens or saprobes. Endophytic Pestalotiopsis and Neopestalotiopsis species were isolated from Dendrobium cariniferum, D. loddigesii and two unidentified orchid species sampled in southwestern China and northern Thailand. Morphological and molecular comparison identified the isolates as two new species; Neopestalotiopsis dendrobii, and Pestalotiopsis doitungensis; two existing species P. lushanensis and P. trachicarpicola. This is the first report of Neopestalotiopsis isolated from the orchid genus Dendrobium and is the first report of pestalotiod fungi in D. careniferum. Pestalotiopsis lushanensis and P. trachicarpicola are new recorded fungal endophytes in Dendrobium orchids.