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Issue: Vol. 725 No. 2: 23 Oct. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-10-23
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.725.2.2
Page range: 144-158
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Morphology and multi-locus phylogeny reveal Cordana puerensis sp. nov., a coffee-associated saprobic fungus from Pu'er, Yunnan, China

Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization & Yunnan International Joint Laboratory of Fungal Sustainable Utilization in South and Southeast Asia, College of Biology and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing 655099, China; School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100, Thailand
Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization & Yunnan International Joint Laboratory of Fungal Sustainable Utilization in South and Southeast Asia, College of Biology and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing 655099, China; Excellence Center of Microbial Diversity and Sustainable Utilization, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand
Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization & Yunnan International Joint Laboratory of Fungal Sustainable Utilization in South and Southeast Asia, College of Biology and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing 655099, China
Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization & Yunnan International Joint Laboratory of Fungal Sustainable Utilization in South and Southeast Asia, College of Biology and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing 655099, China; Excellence Center of Microbial Diversity and Sustainable Utilization, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand
Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization & Yunnan International Joint Laboratory of Fungal Sustainable Utilization in South and Southeast Asia, College of Biology and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing 655099, China; Excellence Center of Microbial Diversity and Sustainable Utilization, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand
Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization & Yunnan International Joint Laboratory of Fungal Sustainable Utilization in South and Southeast Asia, College of Biology and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing 655099, China; School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100, Thailand
Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization & Yunnan International Joint Laboratory of Fungal Sustainable Utilization in South and Southeast Asia, College of Biology and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing 655099, China; School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100, Thailand
Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization & Yunnan International Joint Laboratory of Fungal Sustainable Utilization in South and Southeast Asia, College of Biology and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing 655099, China
School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100, Thailand
Center for Yunnan Plateau Biological Resources Protection and Utilization & Yunnan International Joint Laboratory of Fungal Sustainable Utilization in South and Southeast Asia, College of Biology and Food Engineering, Qujing Normal University, Qujing 655099, China
1 new species Coffea arabica Cordanaceae Microfungi taxonomy Fungi

Abstract

Pu'er City in Yunnan Province is a major coffee-producing region in China. During a survey of saprobic fungi on decomposing Coffea arabica wood in Pu'er, fruiting bodies of an interesting fungus were collected and isolated. Through a comprehensive micro-morphological characterization of fungal structures, including conidial morphology, conidiophore, and conidiogenous cell development, supported by phylogenetic analyses were conducted using Maximum Likelihood (ML) and Bayesian Inference (BI) approaches with a combined dataset of ITS, LSU, and tef1-α sequence data, led to recognition of a novel species, which proposed as Cordana puerensis in this study. This represents the first record of Cordana sp. from coffee, thereby expanding the known host and ecological range of the genus.

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