Acrogenospora (Acrogenosporaceae, Minutisphaerales) Appears to Be a Very Diverse Genus

Dan-Feng Bao; Eric H C McKenzie; D Jayarama Bhat; Kevin D Hyde; Zong-Long Luo; Hong-Wei Shen; Hong-Yan Su

doi:10.3389/fmicb.2020.01606

Acrogenospora (Acrogenosporaceae, Minutisphaerales) Appears to Be a Very Diverse Genus

Front Microbiol. 2020 Jul 24:11:1606. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2020.01606. eCollection 2020.

Authors

Dan-Feng Bao^{1

2

3}, Eric H C McKenzie⁴, D Jayarama Bhat⁵, Kevin D Hyde^{2

6}, Zong-Long Luo¹, Hong-Wei Shen^{1

2}, Hong-Yan Su¹

Affiliations

¹ College of Agriculture and Biological Sciences, Dali University, Dali, China.
² Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, Thailand.
³ Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
⁴ Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research, Auckland, New Zealand.
⁵ Retired, Goa Velha, India.
⁶ Institute of Plant Health, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Guangzhou, China.

Abstract

During a study of diversity and taxonomy of lignicolous freshwater fungi in China, nine species of Acrogenospora were collected. Seven of these were new species and they are described and illustrated. With morphology, additional evidence to support establishment of new species is provided by phylogeny derived from DNA sequence analyses of a combined LSU, SSU, TEF1α, and RPB2 sequence dataset. Acrogenospora subprolata and A. verrucispora were re-collected and sequenced for the first time. The genus Acrogenospora is far more species rich than originally thought, with nine species found in a small area of Yunnan Province, China.

Keywords: 7 new species; Acrogenosporaceae; molecular analyses; phylogeny; taxonomy.