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Published: 2016-09-05
Page range: 34–42
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Seifertia shangrilaensis sp. nov. (Melanommataceae), a new species from Southwest China

Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chinag Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand. World Agroforestry Centre, East and Central Asia, 132 Lanhei Road, Kunming 650201, China. School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand. Key Laboratory of Biodiversity and Biogeography, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, China.
World Agroforestry Centre, East and Central Asia, 132 Lanhei Road, Kunming 650201, China. School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand. Key Laboratory of Biodiversity and Biogeography, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, China.
Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand. School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand.
Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand.
Formerly, Department of Botany, Goa University, Goa-403206, India. 128/1-J, Azad Housing Society, Curca, Goa Velha-403108, India.
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chinag Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand. World Agroforestry Centre, East and Central Asia, 132 Lanhei Road, Kunming 650201, China. Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand. School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand.
Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chinag Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand.
Dothideomycetes hyphomycetous fungi Melanommataceae phylogeny taxonomy Fungi China

Abstract

A new Seifertia species was isolated from hanging rachides of Rhododendron decorum in Yunnan Province, Southwest China. The new taxon was compared with the type species, S. azalea and differs in having wider conidiophores, with hyaline to subhyaline and smaller conidia, while S. azalea has olive-brown to brown, rarely branched conidiophores, and pale brown or olive-brown, very rarely septate conidia. Phylogenetic analyses of combined LSU, SSU and TEF1-α sequence data show that S. shangrilaensis forms a robust clade with S. azalea nested among the species of Melanommataceae in the order Pleosporales. A new species, S. shangrilaensis is introduced in this study, and Seifertia should be placed in Melanommataceae (Pleosporales, Dothideomycetes) based on phylogenetic analysis. Description and illustration of Seifertia shangrilaensis are provided with notes and its introduction is supported by molecular data.