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Issue: Vol. 638 No. 1: 27 Feb. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-02-27
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.638.1.5
Page range: 61-69
Abstract views: 17
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A new species of Pseudohelicoon (Tubeufiales, Dothideomycetes) from Taiwan

Department of Plant Medicine, National Chiayi University, 300 Syuefu Road, Chiayi City 60004, Taiwan.
Bioresource Collection and Research Centre, Food Industry Research and Development Institute, No. 331, Shipin Road, Hsinchu City 300, Taiwan.
Department of Plant Medicine, National Chiayi University, 300 Syuefu Road, Chiayi City 60004, Taiwan.
1 new taxon aero-aquatic hyphomycetes complex group freshwater fungi Helicoon palm saprophytes phylogenetics taxonomy Fungi

Abstract

Pseudohelicoon ellipsoideum sp. nov. from a decaying rachis of an unidentified palm submerged in a freshwater stream at Linmei-Shipan Trail, Taiwan, is described and illustrated. The phylogeny of Pseudohelicoon and other Helicoon species (sensu lato) was inferred by a concatenated dataset of the ITS and partial LSU segments of the nuc rDNA. The new species is phylogenetically positioned among the other two previously described species of Pseudohelicoon, but morphologically it differs from them in the shape and size of conidia.

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