Cryptosphaeria avicenniae

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2.5.4 Cryptosphaeria avicenniae and C. halophila

Cryptosphaeria avicenniae and C. halophila were described as new species from the marine environment based on phylogenetic analyses of ITS rDNA and from India, based on ITS and β- tubulin genes for C. avicenniae and of 18S and 28S rDNA for C. halophila ( Dayarathne et al. 2020b) . However, the different trees shown in the study suggested that Cryptosphaeria was not a monophyletic genus. Cryptosphaeria avicenniae is morphologically similar to Cryptosphaeria bathurstensis in terms of both the sexual and asexual stages but differs in the morphology of the asci and ascospore ( Dayarathne et al. 2020b; Hyde and Rappaz 1993). Cryptosphaeria halophila is an asexual fungus which is morphologically similar to C. avicenniae . The phylogenetic position of C. halophila was unstable in different analyses based on 18S and 28S rDNA genes ( Dayarathne et al. 2020b).