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Issue: Vol. 258 No. 2: 28 April 2016
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2016-04-28
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.258.2.9
Page range: 190–194
Abstract views: 18
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of Zasmidium associated with sooty blotch and flyspeck

State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, China
State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, China
State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, China
State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, China
State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, China
State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, China
Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, United States of America
State Key Laboratory of Crop Stress Biology in Arid Areas and College of Plant Protection, Northwest A&F University, Yangling, Shaanxi Province, China
Ectophyte Mycosphaerellaceae Multigene Phylogenetic analysis Fungi

Abstract

During a survey to characterize the diversity of sooty blotch and flyspeck fungi in China, we obtained an isolate from a fungal colony exhibiting sooty blotch and flyspeck signs on the petiole of brown bollygum (Litsea glutinosa) in Guangxi, China. Based on phylogenetic analysis and morphological characterization, a new species, Zasmidium litseae is introduced. The new species is characterized by its swollen, straight or geniculate conidiogenous cells.