Fusicolla Septimanifiniscientiae Fungal Planet Description Sheets 337

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Fusicolla septimanifiniscientiae Fungal Planet description sheets 337

Fungal Planet 829 – 13 December 2018 Fusicolla septimanifiniscientiae L. Lombard & Hern.-Restr., sp. nov.

Etymology. From Latin septimana- meaning week, fini- meaning the end Typus. The Netherlands, Utrecht Science Park, Westerdijk Fungal Biodi- of, and scientiae- meaning science. Named after the ‘Weekend of Science’. versity Institute, from soil in front of the bronze statue of Johanna Westerdijk, Mar. 2017, M. Hernandez-Restrepo (holotype CBS H-23749, culture ex-type Classiﬁcation — Nectriaceae, Hypocreales, Sordariomycetes. CBS 144935); ITS, LSU, tef1 and tub2 sequences GenBank MK069422, MK069418, MK077808 and MK069408, MycoBank MB828215). Conidiophores initially as lateral phialides arising directly from somatic hyphae, simple or rarely branched, monochasial or ver- Notes — Fusarium s.lat. has recently been segregated into ticillate, straight, hyaline, smooth-walled, aseptate or with basal several fusarium-like genera, one of which is Fusicolla (Lom- septum, up to 32 µm long. Conidiogenous cells monophialidic or bard et al. 2015b, Guarnaccia et al. 2018). Fusicolla septimani rarely polyphialidic, arising laterally from hyphae or in terminal finiscientiae can be distinguished from other species in the pairs, or verticils of three, cylindrical to subulate, 6–16 × 3–4 genus Fusicolla by the formation of polyphialidic conidiogenous µm, thin- and smooth-walled, hyaline with inconspicuous col- cells on the somatic hyphae (Gräfenhan et al. 2011). Based larettes and periclinal thickening. Macroconidia falcate, more on phylogenetic inference of the ITS sequences, F. septimani or less straight, slightly narrowing towards the ends, apical finiscientiae is closely related to F. aquaeductuum, F. matuoi cell often hooked with a more or less pointed tip, basal cell and F. merismoides. However, F. septimanifiniscientiae mostly slightly pedicellate, (1–)3-septate, (19–)25–29(–34) × 3–4 produced 3-septate macroconidia ((19–)25–29(–34) × 3 – 4 µm µm (av. 27 × 3 µm), hyaline, thin- and smooth-walled. Micro (av. 27 × 3 µm)), rarely 1-septate, which are smaller than the conidia absent. Chlamydospores single or in pairs, intercalary 3-septate macroconidia of F. aquaeductuum (30–55 × 2.5–3.5 or terminal, globose to obovoid, thick-walled and verruculose. µm; Gerlach & Nirenberg 1982), F. matuoi ((25–)33–56 × Sexual morph unknown. (1.5–)2–3 µm; Hosoya & Tubaki 2004) and F. merismoides Culture characteristics — Colonies on OA, MEA and PDA (26–48 × 3–4.3 µm; Gerlach & Nirenberg 1982). at 25 °C attaining 25–30 mm in 7 d. On OA aerial mycelium absent with slimy appearance due to abundant sporulation on medium surface, buff to primrose, margin entire. On MEA aerial mycelium absent with slimy appearance due to abundant sporulation on medium surface, rosy buff to buff, reverse buff, margin entire. On PDA aerial mycelium absent with slimy appearance due to abundant sporulation on medium surface, pale luteous to buff, reverse pale luteous, margin entire. HM626625 Geejayessia celtidicola CBS 125502

MH855265 Fusicolla betae CBS 175.32

HQ897790 Fusicolla acetilerea BBA 63789

KM231824 Fusicolla violacea CBS 634.76 100 92

KX897140 Fusicolla melogrammae CBS 141092

MK069422 Fusicolla septimanifiniscientae CBS 144935

99 KM231822 Fusicolla matuoi CBS 581.78

99 Maximum likelihood phylogeny of Fusicolla inferred from ITS KM231823 Fusicolla aquaeductuum CBS 837.85 sequences. The tree is rooted to Geejayessia celtidicola (CBS 125502). Analysis preformed online in CIPRES (www.phylo. 99 org) using RAxML BlackBox using the GTR+I+G nucleotide AB586998 Fusicolla merismoides MAFF 236504 substitution model. Branch support assessed using bootstrap with replicates determined by the software. 0.02

Colour illustrations. Background, collection site (grounds of the Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute); conidiophores, mono- and polyphialidic conidio genous cells, macroconidia and chlamydospores. Scale bars = 10 µm

Lorenzo Lombard & Margarita Hernández-Restrepo, Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, P.O. Box 85167, 3508 AD Utrecht, The Netherlands; e-mail: [email protected] & [email protected]