Neokalmusia Ariyawansa & K.D. Hyde, Fungal Diversity 68: 92 (2014b)

Hu, Hongmin, He, Minghui, Wu, Youpeng, Long, Sihan, Zhang, Xu, Liu, Lili, Shen, Xiangchun, Wijayawardene, Nalin N., Meng, Zebin, Long, Qingde, Kang, Jichuan & Li, Qirui, 2023, Taxonomic and phylogenetic characterisations of six species of Pleosporales (in Didymosphaeriaceae, Roussoellaceae and Nigrogranaceae) from China, MycoKeys 100, pp. 123-151 : 123

Neokalmusia Ariyawansa & K.D. Hyde, Fungal Diversity 68: 92 (2014b)

Notes.

Neokalmusia was established by Ariyawansa et al. (2014b) to accommodate two bambusicolous taxa, N. brevispora and N. scabrispora , previously referred to Kalmusia . Members of Neokalmusia are characterised by solitary sphaeroid ascomata, a peridium of small pseudoparenchymatous cells, clavate basal asci with very long pedicels, very thin pseudoparaphyses and distoseptate, smooth-walled ascospores ( Ariyawansa et al. 2014b; Zhang et al. 2020a). In this study, we introduce a new species of Neokalmusia , based on a combination of morphological and molecular analyses (Fig. 1 ).

Figures

Figure 1. RAxML phylogram of Didymosphaeriaceae, based on a combined dataset of partial ITS, LSU, SSU and tef 1 DNA sequences. The tree is rooted by Bimuria novae-zelandiae (CBS 107.79) and Bimuria omanensis (SQUCC 15280). Bootstrap supports ML (MLB ≥ 75 %) and Bayesian posterior probabilities (BYPP ≥ 0.95) are given as MLB / BYPP above the branches. Sequences from newly-generated isolates are in red, bold letters, while those of ex-type isolates are shown in black, bold letters.