Moniliophthora brasiliensis (Arruda, G.F. Sepulveda , R.N.G.Miller, M.A.Ferreira & M.S.Felipe) Niveiro, Lodge & Aime, 2020

Niveiro, Nicolas, Ramirez, Natalia A., Michlig, Andrea, Lodge, D. Jean & Aime, M. Catherine, 2020, Studies of Neotropical tree pathogens in Moniliophthora: a new species, M. mayarum, and new combinations for Crinipellis ticoi and C. brasiliensis, MycoKeys 66, pp. 39-54 : 39

Moniliophthora brasiliensis (Arruda, G.F. Sepulveda, R.N.G.Miller, M.A.Ferreira & M.S.Felipe) Niveiro, Lodge & Aime comb. nov.

≡ Crinipellis brasiliensis Arruda, G.F. Sepúlveda, R.N.G.Miller, M.A.Ferreira & M.S.Felipe, Mycologia 97: 1355 (2006). Type: Brazil. Minas Gerais, Itumirim. On dry fan brooms of Heteropterys acutifolia Adr. Juss., 19 Oct 1999, MCC de Arruda 43 [Holotype: UB (Mycol. Col.) 19198].

Distribution.

This species is known from Minas Gerais, Brazil ( Arruda et al. 2005).

Observations.

Moniliophthora brasiliensis is characterized by the light pink to crimson red pileus surface, ellipsoidal basidiospores, 10-14 × 5-7 µm, and lageniform cheilocystidia, with a thin apex, 28-37 × 10-16 µm in size ( Arruda et al. 2005). Moniliophthora brasiliensis is a parasite of Heteropterys acutifolia ( Malpighiaceae ). Only ITS sequence data are available for this taxon, which was derived from a dikaryotic basidiome collected from a necrotic broom on H. acutifolia ( Arruda et al. 2005). Moniliophthora brasiliensis is extremely similar to M. perniciosa and diagnosis between the two species at present is based soley on differences in ITS sequence data ( Arruda et al. 2005).