Morphological and Phylogenetic Appraisal of Novel and Extant Taxa of Stictidaceae from Northern Thailand

De-Ping Wei; Dhanushka N Wanasinghe; Eleni Gentekaki; Vinodhini Thiyagaraja; Saisamorn Lumyong; Kevin D Hyde

doi:10.3390/jof7100880

Morphological and Phylogenetic Appraisal of Novel and Extant Taxa of Stictidaceae from Northern Thailand

J Fungi (Basel). 2021 Oct 19;7(10):880. doi: 10.3390/jof7100880.

Authors

De-Ping Wei^{1

2

3

4}, Dhanushka N Wanasinghe^{1

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6}, Eleni Gentekaki^{2

7}, Vinodhini Thiyagaraja^{2

3

4}, Saisamorn Lumyong^{8

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10}, Kevin D Hyde^{1

2

8

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Affiliations

¹ CAS Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, China.
² Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand.
³ Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand.
⁴ Mushroom Research Foundation, 128 M.3 Ban Pa Deng T. Pa Pae, A. Mae Taeng, Chiang Mai 50150, Thailand.
⁵ World Agroforestry Centre, East and Central Asia, Kunming 650201, China.
⁶ Centre for Mountain Futures, Kunming Institute of Botany, Kunming 650201, China.
⁷ School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand.
⁸ Research Center of Microbial Diversity and Sustainable Utilization, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand.
⁹ Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, CHiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand.
¹⁰ Academy of Science, The Royal Society of Thailand, Bangkok 10300, Thailand.
¹¹ Innovative Institute of Plant Health, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Haizhu District, Guangzhou 510225, China.

Abstract

Stictidaceae comprises taxa with diverse lifestyles. Many species in this family are drought resistant and important for studying fungal adaptation and evolution. Stictidaceae comprises 32 genera, but many of them have been neglected for decades due to the lack of field collections and molecular data. In this study, we introduce a new species Fitzroyomyces hyaloseptisporus and a new combination Fitzroyomycespandanicola. We also provide additional morphological and molecular data for Ostropomyces pruinosellus and O. thailandicus based on new collections isolated from an unidentified woody dicotyledonous host in Chiang Rai, Thailand. Taxonomic conclusions are made with the aid of morphological evidence and phylogenetic analysis of combined LSU, ITS and mtSSU sequence data. Characteristics such as the shape and septation of ascospores and conidia as well as lifestyles among genera of Stictidaceae are discussed.

Keywords: Ostropales; lichenization; new species; non-lichenized fungi; phylogeny; taxonomy.