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PERSOONIAL R Eflections
Persoonia 23, 2009: 177–208 www.persoonia.org doi:10.3767/003158509X482951 PERSOONIAL R eflections Editorial: Celebrating 50 years of Fungal Biodiversity Research The year 2009 represents the 50th anniversary of Persoonia as the message that without fungi as basal link in the food chain, an international journal of mycology. Since 2008, Persoonia is there will be no biodiversity at all. a full-colour, Open Access journal, and from 2009 onwards, will May the Fungi be with you! also appear in PubMed, which we believe will give our authors even more exposure than that presently achieved via the two Editors-in-Chief: independent online websites, www.IngentaConnect.com, and Prof. dr PW Crous www.persoonia.org. The enclosed free poster depicts the 50 CBS Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Uppsalalaan 8, 3584 CT most beautiful fungi published throughout the year. We hope Utrecht, The Netherlands. that the poster acts as further encouragement for students and mycologists to describe and help protect our planet’s fungal Dr ME Noordeloos biodiversity. As 2010 is the international year of biodiversity, we National Herbarium of the Netherlands, Leiden University urge you to prominently display this poster, and help distribute branch, P.O. Box 9514, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands. Book Reviews Mu«enko W, Majewski T, Ruszkiewicz- The Cryphonectriaceae include some Michalska M (eds). 2008. A preliminary of the most important tree pathogens checklist of micromycetes in Poland. in the world. Over the years I have Biodiversity of Poland, Vol. 9. Pp. personally helped collect populations 752; soft cover. Price 74 €. W. Szafer of some species in Africa and South Institute of Botany, Polish Academy America, and have witnessed the of Sciences, Lubicz, Kraków, Poland. -
Unusual New Chaetosphaeria Species from New
AtkinsonNew Zealand et al.—New Journal ofspecies Botany, of Chaetosphaeria2007, Vol. 45: 685–706 from New Zealand 685 0028–825X/07/4504–0685 © The Royal Society of New Zealand 2007 Unusual new Chaetosphaeria species from New Zealand: intrafamilial diversity and elucidations of the Chaetosphaeriaceae – Lasiosphaeriaceae relationship (Sordariomycetes, Ascomycotina) TONI J. ATKINSON they lack a peridial tomentum, and have asci with Department of Botany light-refractive, non-amyloid apical rings, without a University of Otago sub-apical globule. Despite the major differences in PO Box 56 spore shape and ascomal wall structure, analyses of Dunedin 9054, New Zealand the LSU and ITS regions of ribosomal DNA suggest [email protected] that genetically all three fall within Chaetosphaeria, near to C. raciborskii, and in a sister clade to the ANDREW N. MILLER type species C. innumera. The placement of these Illinois Natural History Survey species considerably expands current morphologi- Section for Biodiversity cal conceptions of Chaetosphaeria, particularly in Champaign, Illinois, USA terms of ascomal wall appearance and structure, and SABINE M. HUHNDORF confirms the existence of a scolecosporous group Department of Botany within the genus. In the search for morphological The Field Museum characters which mimic genetic relationships, this Chicago, USA study further elucidates the relationship between the Chaetosphaeriaceae and the Lasiosphaeriaceae. DAVID A. ORLOVICH Department of Botany Keywords Chaetosphaeria; Chaetosphaeriaceae; University of Otago Lasiosphaeriaceae; Sordariales; LSU; ITS; systemat- PO Box 56 ics; New Zealand Dunedin 9054, New Zealand Abstract Chaetosphaeria albida, C. bombycina, INTRODUCTION and C. metallicans are described and compared with Consecutive autumn collecting trips to the Oparara other Chaetosphaeria taxa using morphological and Basin, near Karamea, on the South Island’s west molecular methods. -
Molecular Systematics of the Sordariales: the Order and the Family Lasiosphaeriaceae Redefined
Mycologia, 96(2), 2004, pp. 368±387. q 2004 by The Mycological Society of America, Lawrence, KS 66044-8897 Molecular systematics of the Sordariales: the order and the family Lasiosphaeriaceae rede®ned Sabine M. Huhndorf1 other families outside the Sordariales and 22 addi- Botany Department, The Field Museum, 1400 S. Lake tional genera with differing morphologies subse- Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60605-2496 quently are transferred out of the order. Two new Andrew N. Miller orders, Coniochaetales and Chaetosphaeriales, are recognized for the families Coniochaetaceae and Botany Department, The Field Museum, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60605-2496 Chaetosphaeriaceae respectively. The Boliniaceae is University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of accepted in the Boliniales, and the Nitschkiaceae is Biological Sciences, Chicago, Illinois 60607-7060 accepted in the Coronophorales. Annulatascaceae and Cephalothecaceae are placed in Sordariomyce- Fernando A. FernaÂndez tidae inc. sed., and Batistiaceae is placed in the Euas- Botany Department, The Field Museum, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60605-2496 comycetes inc. sed. Key words: Annulatascaceae, Batistiaceae, Bolini- aceae, Catabotrydaceae, Cephalothecaceae, Ceratos- Abstract: The Sordariales is a taxonomically diverse tomataceae, Chaetomiaceae, Coniochaetaceae, Hel- group that has contained from seven to 14 families minthosphaeriaceae, LSU nrDNA, Nitschkiaceae, in recent years. The largest family is the Lasiosphaer- Sordariaceae iaceae, which has contained between 33 and 53 gen- era, depending on the chosen classi®cation. To de- termine the af®nities and taxonomic placement of INTRODUCTION the Lasiosphaeriaceae and other families in the Sor- The Sordariales is one of the most taxonomically di- dariales, taxa representing every family in the Sor- verse groups within the Class Sordariomycetes (Phy- dariales and most of the genera in the Lasiosphaeri- lum Ascomycota, Subphylum Pezizomycotina, ®de aceae were targeted for phylogenetic analysis using Eriksson et al 2001). -
Monilochaetes and Allied Genera of the Glomerellales, and a Reconsideration of Families in the Microascales
available online at www.studiesinmycology.org StudieS in Mycology 68: 163–191. 2011. doi:10.3114/sim.2011.68.07 Monilochaetes and allied genera of the Glomerellales, and a reconsideration of families in the Microascales M. Réblová1*, W. Gams2 and K.A. Seifert3 1Department of Taxonomy, Institute of Botany of the Academy of Sciences, CZ – 252 43 Průhonice, Czech Republic; 2Molenweg 15, 3743CK Baarn, The Netherlands; 3Biodiversity (Mycology and Botany), Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0C6, Canada *Correspondence: Martina Réblová, [email protected] Abstract: We examined the phylogenetic relationships of two species that mimic Chaetosphaeria in teleomorph and anamorph morphologies, Chaetosphaeria tulasneorum with a Cylindrotrichum anamorph and Australiasca queenslandica with a Dischloridium anamorph. Four data sets were analysed: a) the internal transcribed spacer region including ITS1, 5.8S rDNA and ITS2 (ITS), b) nc28S (ncLSU) rDNA, c) nc18S (ncSSU) rDNA, and d) a combined data set of ncLSU-ncSSU-RPB2 (ribosomal polymerase B2). The traditional placement of Ch. tulasneorum in the Microascales based on ncLSU sequences is unsupported and Australiasca does not belong to the Chaetosphaeriaceae. Both holomorph species are nested within the Glomerellales. A new genus, Reticulascus, is introduced for Ch. tulasneorum with associated Cylindrotrichum anamorph; another species of Reticulascus and its anamorph in Cylindrotrichum are described as new. The taxonomic structure of the Glomerellales is clarified and the name is validly published. As delimited here, it includes three families, the Glomerellaceae and the newly described Australiascaceae and Reticulascaceae. Based on ITS and ncLSU rDNA sequence analyses, we confirm the synonymy of the anamorph generaDischloridium with Monilochaetes. -
Diversity and Function of Fungi Associated with the Fungivorous Millipede, Brachycybe
bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/515304; this version posted January 9, 2019. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. Diversity and function of fungi associated with the fungivorous millipede, Brachycybe lecontii † Angie M. Maciasa, Paul E. Marekb, Ember M. Morrisseya, Michael S. Brewerc, Dylan P.G. Shortd, Cameron M. Staudera, Kristen L. Wickerta, Matthew C. Bergera, Amy M. Methenya, Jason E. Stajiche, Greg Boycea, Rita V. M. Riof, Daniel G. Panaccionea, Victoria Wongb, Tappey H. Jonesg, Matt T. Kassona,* a Division of Plant and Soil Sciences, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, 26506, USA b Department of Entomology, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, 24061, USA c Department of Biology, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC 27858, USA d Amycel Spawnmate, Royal Oaks, CA, 95067, USA e Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology and Institute for Integrative Genome Biology, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA f Department of Biology, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, 26506, USA g Department of Chemistry, Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, VA, 24450, USA † Scientific article No. XXXX of the West Virginia Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA, 26506. * Corresponding author. Current address: G103 South Agricultural Sciences Building, Morgantown, WV, 26506, USA. E-mail address: [email protected] (M.T. Kasson). bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/515304; this version posted January 9, 2019. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. -
An Additional Fungal Lineage in the Hypocreomycetidae (Falcocladium Species) and the Taxonomic Re-Evaluation of Chaetosphaeria C
Cryptogamie, Mycologie, 2014, 35 (2): 119-138 © 2014 Adac. Tous droits réservés An additional fungal lineage in the Hypocreomycetidae (Falcocladium species) and the taxonomic re-evaluation of Chaetosphaeria chaetosa and Swampomyces species, based on morphology, ecology and phylogeny E.B. Gareth JONESa*, Satinee SUETRONGb, Wan-Hsuan CHENGc, Nattawut RUNGJINDAMAIb, Jariya SAKAYAROJb, Nattawut BOONYUENb, Sayanh SOMROTHIPOLd, Mohamed A. ABDEL-WAHABa & Ka-Lai PANGc aBotany and Microbiology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, 1145, Saudi Arabia; email: [email protected] bFungal Diversity Laboratory (BFBD), National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC), 113 Thailand Science Park, Phahonyothin Road, Khlong Nueng, Khlong Luang, Pathum Thani, Thailand cInstitute of Marine Biology and Center of Excellence for the Oceans, National Taiwan Ocean University, 2 Pei-Ning Road, Keelung 20224, Taiwan (R.O.C.) dMicrobe Interaction Laboratory (BMIT), National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC), 113 Thailand Science Park, Phahonyothin Road, Khlong Nueng, Khlong Luang, Pathum Thani, Thailand Abstract – The taxonomic position of the marine fungi referred to the TBM clade is re-evaluated along with the marine species Chaetosphaeria chaetosa, and the terrestrial asexual genus Falcocladium. Phylogenetic analyses of DNA sequences of two ribosomal nuclear loci of the above taxa and those previous recognized as the TBM clade suggest that they form a distinct clade amongst the Hypocreales, Microascales, Savoryellales, Coronophorales and Melanosporales in the Hypocreomycetidae. Four well-supported subclades in the “TBM clade” are discerned including: 1) the Juncigena subclade, 2) the Etheirophora and Swampomyces s. s. subclade, 3) the Falcocladium subclade and 4) the Torpedospora subclade. Chaetosphaeria chaetosa does not group in the Chaetosphaeriales but together with Swampomyces aegyptiacus and S. -
An Overview of the Systematics of the Sordariomycetes Based on a Four-Gene Phylogeny
Mycologia, 98(6), 2006, pp. 1076–1087. # 2006 by The Mycological Society of America, Lawrence, KS 66044-8897 An overview of the systematics of the Sordariomycetes based on a four-gene phylogeny Ning Zhang of 16 in the Sordariomycetes was investigated based Department of Plant Pathology, NYSAES, Cornell on four nuclear loci (nSSU and nLSU rDNA, TEF and University, Geneva, New York 14456 RPB2), using three species of the Leotiomycetes as Lisa A. Castlebury outgroups. Three subclasses (i.e. Hypocreomycetidae, Systematic Botany & Mycology Laboratory, USDA-ARS, Sordariomycetidae and Xylariomycetidae) currently Beltsville, Maryland 20705 recognized in the classification are well supported with the placement of the Lulworthiales in either Andrew N. Miller a basal group of the Sordariomycetes or a sister group Center for Biodiversity, Illinois Natural History Survey, of the Hypocreomycetidae. Except for the Micro- Champaign, Illinois 61820 ascales, our results recognize most of the orders as Sabine M. Huhndorf monophyletic groups. Melanospora species form Department of Botany, The Field Museum of Natural a clade outside of the Hypocreales and are recognized History, Chicago, Illinois 60605 as a distinct order in the Hypocreomycetidae. Conrad L. Schoch Glomerellaceae is excluded from the Phyllachorales Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Oregon and placed in Hypocreomycetidae incertae sedis. In State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331 the Sordariomycetidae, the Sordariales is a strongly supported clade and occurs within a well supported Keith A. Seifert clade containing the Boliniales and Chaetosphaer- Biodiversity (Mycology and Botany), Agriculture and iales. Aspects of morphology, ecology and evolution Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, K1A 0C6 Canada are discussed. Amy Y. -
New Species of Chaetosphaeria, Melanopsammella and Tainosphaeria Gen
Fungal Diversity New species of Chaetosphaeria, Melanopsammella and Tainosphaeria gen. nov. from the Americas Fernando A. Fernández* and Sabine M. Huhndorf The Field Museum, Department of Botany, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60605- 2496, USA Fernández, F.A. and Huhndorf, S.M. (2005). New species of Chaetosphaeria, Melanopsammella and Tainosphaeria gen. nov. from the Americas. Fungal Diversity 18: 15- 57. Ten new species of Chaetosphaeria, and one new species of Melanopsammella are described from North temperate and tropical America. The new genus Tainosphaeria is also described and Chaetosphaeria capitata is reported from the Neotropics for the first time. Seven different, distinctive anamorphs are reported and connected to Chaetosphaeria teleomorphs. The morphological diversity in anamorphs of Chaetosphaeria and its phylogenetic significance is discussed. Key words: anamorph, Chaetosphaeriaceae, Lasiosphaeriaceae, Sordariales, Striatosphaeria, systematics, Trichosphaeriaceae, Zignoëlla. Introduction Chaetosphaeria Tul. and Tul. and related genera are common saprobic pyrenomycetous ascomycetes which reproduce on extensively decomposed plant substrates and are worldwide in distribution. Ascomata are very small (ca. 100-300 µm in diam.), superficial, glabrous or setose, and are commonly found on decorticated and highly decayed wood, at or in close proximity to the ground. In the tropics, any highly decomposed, lignin-containing substrate (logs, branches, twigs, wood fragments, palm petioles) supports the fruiting of these fungi. Chaetosphaeria had been placed in the Lasiosphaeriaceae (Barr, 1990), and it is currently in the Chaetosphaeriaceae (Réblová et al., 1999) in the newly introduced Chaetosphaeriales (Huhndorf et al., 2004). Morphological characters in teleomorphs of Chaetosphaeria are relatively few and generally simple, whereas corresponding anamorphs are, relatively speaking, distinctive and morphologically diverse. -
Mycosphere Notes 169–224 Article
Mycosphere 9(2): 271–430 (2018) www.mycosphere.org ISSN 2077 7019 Article Doi 10.5943/mycosphere/9/2/8 Copyright © Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences Mycosphere notes 169–224 Hyde KD1,2, Chaiwan N2, Norphanphoun C2,6, Boonmee S2, Camporesi E3,4, Chethana KWT2,13, Dayarathne MC1,2, de Silva NI1,2,8, Dissanayake AJ2, Ekanayaka AH2, Hongsanan S2, Huang SK1,2,6, Jayasiri SC1,2, Jayawardena RS2, Jiang HB1,2, Karunarathna A1,2,12, Lin CG2, Liu JK7,16, Liu NG2,15,16, Lu YZ2,6, Luo ZL2,11, Maharachchimbura SSN14, Manawasinghe IS2,13, Pem D2, Perera RH2,16, Phukhamsakda C2, Samarakoon MC2,8, Senwanna C2,12, Shang QJ2, Tennakoon DS1,2,17, Thambugala KM2, Tibpromma, S2, Wanasinghe DN1,2, Xiao YP2,6, Yang J2,16, Zeng XY2,6, Zhang JF2,15, Zhang SN2,12,16, Bulgakov TS18, Bhat DJ20, Cheewangkoon R12, Goh TK17, Jones EBG21, Kang JC6, Jeewon R19, Liu ZY16, Lumyong S8,9, Kuo CH17, McKenzie EHC10, Wen TC6, Yan JY13, Zhao Q2 1 Key Laboratory for Plant Biodiversity and Biogeography of East Asia (KLPB), Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, P.R. China 2 Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand 3 A.M.B. Gruppo Micologico Forlivese ‘‘Antonio Cicognani’’, Via Roma 18, Forlı`, Italy 4 A.M.B. Circolo Micologico ‘‘Giovanni Carini’’, C.P. 314, Brescia, Italy 5 Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, P.R. China 6 Engineering and Research Center for Southwest Bio-Pharmaceutical Resources of national education Ministry of Education, Guizhou University, Guiyang, Guizhou Province 550025, P.R. -
New Species of Thozetella and Chaetosphaeria and New Records of Chaetosphaeria and Tainosphaeria from Thailand
Mycosphere 7 (9): 1301–1321 (2016) www.mycosphere.org ISSN 2077 7019 Article – special issue Doi 10.5943/mycosphere/7/9/5 Copyright © Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences New species of Thozetella and Chaetosphaeria and new records of Chaetosphaeria and Tainosphaeria from Thailand Perera RH1, 2, Maharachchikumbura SSN3, Bhat JD4, Al-Sadi AM3, Liu JK1, Hyde KD2, 5, 6 and Liu ZY1 1Guizhou Key Laboratory of Agricultural Biotechnology, Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Xiaohe District, Guiyang City, Guizhou Province 550006, People’s Republic of China 2Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand 3Department of Crop Sciences, College of Agricultural and Marine Sciences, Sultan Qaboos University, PO Box 34, Al Khoud 123, Oman 4Formerly at Department of Botany, Goa University, Goa 403206, India 5Key Laboratory for Plant Biodiversity and Biogeography of East Asia (KLPB), Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China 6World Agroforestry Centre, East and Central Asia, 132 Lanhei Road, Kunming 650201, China Perera RH, Maharachchikumbura SSN, Bhat JD, Al-Sadi AM, Liu JK, Hyde KD, Liu ZY. 2016 – New species of Thozetella and Chaetosphaeria and new records of Chaetosphaeria and Tainosphaeria from Thailand. Mycosphere 7 (9), 1301–1321, Doi 10.5943/mycosphere/7/9/5 Abstract We are studying seed and fruit-borne fungi in Thailand and in this paper report on species of Tainosphaeria, Thozetella and Chaetosphaeria from Fabaceae seed pods and decorticated wood, collected in Chiang Mai and Phang-nga provinces. Phylogenetic analysis of combined LSU, ITS and TUB sequence data provides evidence for new species of Thozetella and Chaetosphaeria. -
Delimitation, New Species and Teleomorph
A peer-reviewed open-access journal MycoKeys 74: 17–74 (2020) doi: 10.3897/mycokeys.74.57824 RESEARCH ARTICLE https://mycokeys.pensoft.net Launched to accelerate biodiversity research Delimitation, new species and teleomorph-anamorph relationships in Codinaea, Dendrophoma, Paragaeumannomyces and Striatosphaeria (Chaetosphaeriaceae) Martina Réblová1, Jana Nekvindová2, Jacques Fournier3, Andrew N. Miller4 1 The Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Botany, Department of Taxonomy, Průhonice 252 43, Czech Republic 2 Department of Clinical Biochemistry and Diagnostics, University Hospital Hradec Králové, Hradec Králové 500 05, Czech Republic 3 Las Muros, Rimont 09420, France 4 Illinois Natural History Survey, Uni- versity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois 61820, USA Corresponding author: Martina Réblová ([email protected]) Academic editor: T. Lumbsch | Received 20 August 2020 | Accepted 22 September 2020 | Published 19 October 2020 Citation: Réblová M, Nekvindová J, Fournier J, Miller AN (2020) Delimitation, new species and teleomorph- anamorph relationships in Codinaea, Dendrophoma, Paragaeumannomyces and Striatosphaeria (Chaetosphaeriaceae). MycoKeys 74: 17–74. https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.74.57824 Abstract The Chaetosphaeriaceae are a diverse group of pigmented, predominantly phialidic hyphomycetes com- prised of several holomorphic genera including Chaetosphaeria, the most prominent genus of the family. Although the morphology of the teleomorphs of the majority of Chaetosphaeria is rather uniform, their associated anamorphs primarily exhibit the variability and evolutionary change observed in the genus. An exception from the morphological monotony among Chaetosphaeria species is a group character- ised by scolecosporous, hyaline to light pink, multiseptate, asymmetrical ascospores and a unique three- layered ascomatal wall. Paragaeumannomyces sphaerocellularis, the type species of the genus, exhibits these morphological traits and is compared with similar Chaetosphaeria with craspedodidymum- and chloridium-like synanamorphs. -
(Chaetosphaeriaceae, Sordariomycetes), a Novel Asexual Genus and Species from Freshwater in Southern China
A peer-reviewed open-access journal MycoKeys 76: 17–30 (2020) doi: 10.3897/mycokeys.76.57410 RESEARCH ARTICLE https://mycokeys.pensoft.net Launched to accelerate biodiversity research Phialolunulospora vermispora (Chaetosphaeriaceae, Sordariomycetes), a novel asexual genus and species from freshwater in southern China Hua Zheng1*, Yake Wan1*, Jie Li1, Rafael F. Castañeda-Ruiz2, Zefen Yu1 1 Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-resources, Key Laboratory for Microbial Resources of the Ministry of Education, School of Life Sciences, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan, 650091, China 2 Instituto de Investigaciones Fundamentales en Agricultura Tropical “Alejandro de Humboldt” (INIFAT), 17200, La Habana, Cuba Corresponding author: Zefen Yu ([email protected]) Academic editor: H. Raja | Received 9 August 2020 | Accepted 6 December 2020 | Published 22 December 2020 Citation: Zheng H, Wan Y, Li J, Castañeda-Ruiz RF, Yu Z (2020) Phialolunulospora vermispora (Chaetosphaeriaceae, Sordariomycetes), a novel asexual genus and species from freshwater in southern China. MycoKeys 76: 17–30. https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.76.57410 Abstract The asexual taxon Phialolunulospora vermispora gen. et sp. nov., collected from submerged dicotyledonous leaves in Hainan, China, is described and illustrated herein. Phialolunulospora gen. nov. is characterized by macronematous, semimacronematous, septate and pigmented conidiophores and acrogenous, long lunate, vermiform to sigmoid, hyaline conidia with an eccentric basal appendage. Complete sequences of internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and partial sequences of nuclear large subunits ribosomal DNA (LSU) genes are provided. Phylogenetic analyses of combined ITS and LSU sequences revealed its placement in the Chaetosphaeriaceae. The new fungus is compared with morphologically similar genera. Keywords Biodiversity, Chaetosphaeriales, phylogeny, taxonomy Introduction China is considered an important Asian reservoir of biodiversity.