Hypomyces pseudolactifluorum sp. nov. (Hypocreales: Hypocreaceae) on Russula sp. from Yunnan, PR China

Feng-Ming Yu; Ruvishika S Jayawardena; Jianwei Liu; Kevin D Hyde; Qi Zhao

doi:10.3897/BDJ.8.e53490

Hypomyces pseudolactifluorum sp. nov. (Hypocreales: Hypocreaceae) on Russula sp. from Yunnan, PR China

Biodivers Data J. 2020 Sep 28:8:e53490. doi: 10.3897/BDJ.8.e53490. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Feng-Ming Yu^{1

2}, Ruvishika S Jayawardena², Jianwei Liu¹, Kevin D Hyde^{1

2

3}, Qi Zhao^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of Economic Plants and Biotechnology, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China Key Laboratory of Economic Plants and Biotechnology, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences Kunming China.
² Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiangrai, Thailand Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University Chiangrai Thailand.
³ Institute of Plant Health, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Guangzhou, China Institute of Plant Health, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering Guangzhou China.
⁴ Institute of Applied Fungi, Southwest Forestry University, Kunming, China Institute of Applied Fungi, Southwest Forestry University Kunming China.

Abstract

Background: Hypomyces is a large genus of fungicolous fungi, parasitising the fruiting bodies of Agaricales, Boletales, Helotiales, Pezizales and Polyporales. Hypomyces currently comprises of 147 species widely distributed in Australia, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, North America, Sri Lanka, Thailand and UK. Amongst them, 28 species have been recorded in China.

New information: Hypomyces pseudolactifluorum sp. nov., growing on the fruiting bodies of Russula sp. in subsect. Lactarioideae and collected from Yunnan, China, is described with illustrations and molecular phylogenetic data (combined ITS, LSU, TEF1-α and RPB2 sequence dataset). The new species is characterised by semi-immersed to immersed perithecia and fusiform, apiculate and verrucose ascospores. We also review the species diversity of the genus Hypomyces in China.

Keywords: Mycoparasite; muti-gene phylogeny; species diversity.

Feng-ming Yu, Ruvishika S. Jayawardena, Jianwei Liu, Kevin D. Hyde, Qi Zhao.