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Issue: Vol. 649 No. 2: 20 May 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-05-20
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.649.2.2
Page range: 159-181
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Morphological and phylogenetic evidence for recognition of a new species of Kirschsteiniothelia, K. agumbensis and validation of five new combinations in Kirschsteiniotheliaceae

National Fungal Culture Collection of India (NFCCI), Biodiversity and Palaeobiology (Fungi) Gr., MACS Agharkar Research Institute, G. G. Agarkar Road, Pune, 411 004, Maharashtra, India. Faculty of Science, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, 411 007, Maharashtra, India.
National Fungal Culture Collection of India (NFCCI), Biodiversity and Palaeobiology (Fungi) Gr., MACS Agharkar Research Institute, G. G. Agarkar Road, Pune, 411 004, Maharashtra, India. Faculty of Science, Savitribai Phule Pune University, Pune, 411 007, Maharashtra, India.
Range Forest Office Hebri, Karkala Wildlife Division, Udupi,576 112, Karnataka, India
National Fungal Culture Collection of India (NFCCI), Biodiversity and Palaeobiology (Fungi) Gr., MACS Agharkar Research Institute, G. G. Agarkar Road, Pune, 411 004, Maharashtra, India
Department of Forest Ecology, Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi, Thrissur, Kerala 680 653, India
hyphomycetes phylogeny taxonomy Kirschsteiniotheliaceae Agumbe Western Ghats Fungi

Abstract

This study introduces a new species of Kirschsteiniothelia from Agumbe in the central Western Ghats of Karnataka, India. This new species differs from the allied species by its reduced to sessile conidiophores and cylindrical, straight to flexuous, coarsely verrucose to granulate to punctate, 18–41 euseptate elongated conidia. Phylogenetic analyses of combined ITS, LSU and SSU sequence data delineated K. agumbensis as a new lineage allied to Kirschsteiniothelia rostrata under the family Kirschsteiniotheliaceae. Furthermore, pairwise homoplasy index of phylogenetically closely related taxa also confirmed it as a new species.

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