Epicoccum rosae D. N. Wanasinghe et al.

Wang, Yuchun, Tu, Yiyi, Chen, Xueling, Jiang, Hong, Ren, Hengze, Lu, Qinhua, Wei, Chaoling & Lv, Wuyun, 2024, Didymellaceae species associated with tea plant (Camellia sinensis) in China, MycoKeys 105, pp. 217-251 : 217-251

Epicoccum rosae D. N. Wanasinghe et al. , Fungal Diversity. 89: 29. 2018

Description.

see Wanasinghe et al. (2018 b).

Materials examined.

China, Hubei Province, Wuhan City, Jiangxia District , from diseased leaves of C. sinensis cv. Yulv, 10 Jul 2019, Y. C. Wang, culture YCW 331 .

Notes.

Epicoccum rosae had pycnidial conidiomata with hyaline conidia and hyphomycetous dark sporodochia with branched conidiophores and verruculose, muriform chlamydospores. It formed a distinct lineage closely related to E. tobaicum (Fig. 3 ). In the present study, three strains were isolated from diseased tea plant leaves. This is the first report of E. rosae isolated from C. sinensis .

Figures

Figure 3. Phylogenetic tree generated by Maximum Likelihood analysis, based on the combined ITS, LSU, RPB 2 and TUB 2 dataset of Epicoccum species. Bootstrap support values above 50 % and Bayesian posterior values above 0.75 are shown at each node (ML / PP). Pleiochaeta setosa CBS 118.25 / CBS 496.63 and Co. palmarum CBS 400.71 are used as outgroups. Ex-type strains are emphasised in bold.