During our survey of the diversity of woody litter fungi in China and Thailand, three Hermatomyces species were collected from dead woody twigs of Dipterocarpus sp. (Dipterocarpaceae) and Ehretia acuminata (Boraginaceae). Both morphology and multigene analyses revealed two taxa as new species (Hermatomyces turbinatus and H. jinghaensis) and the remaining collections as new records of H. sphaericus. Hermatomyces turbinatus is characterized by 1) dimorphic conidia, having circular to oval lenticular conidia and 2) turbinate conidia consisting of two columns with two septa composed of 2–3 cells in each column. Hermatomyces jinghaensis is characterized by dimorphic conidia, having circular to oval lenticular conidia and clavate or subcylindrical to cylindrical conidia and consisting of one or two columns with 6–8 cells in each column. Phylogenetic analyses of combined LSU, ITS, tub2, tef1-α and rpb2 sequence data supports the placement of these new taxa within Hermatomycetaceae with high statistical support.
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.82.67973Altmetric score:
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Publication year
2021
Authors
Ren, G.C.; Wanasinghe, D.N.; Monkai, J.; Mortimer, P.E.; Hyde, K.D.; Xu, J.; Pang, A.; Gui, H.
Language
English
Keywords
phylogeny, taxonomy, fungi, microbial genetics, Hyphomycates
Geographic
China, Thailand
