Three New Species of Apiospora (Amphisphaeriales, Apiosporaceae) on Indocalamus longiauritus, Adinandra glischroloma and Machilus nanmu from Hainan and Fujian, China

Xinye Liu; Zhaoxue Zhang; Shi Wang; Xiuguo Zhang

doi:10.3390/jof10010074

Three New Species of Apiospora (Amphisphaeriales, Apiosporaceae) on Indocalamus longiauritus, Adinandra glischroloma and Machilus nanmu from Hainan and Fujian, China

J Fungi (Basel). 2024 Jan 17;10(1):74. doi: 10.3390/jof10010074.

Authors

Xinye Liu¹, Zhaoxue Zhang², Shi Wang¹, Xiuguo Zhang¹

Affiliations

¹ College of Life Sciences, Shandong Normal University, Jinan 250358, China.
² Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory for Biology of Vegetable Diseases and Insect Pests, College of Plant Protection, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian 271018, China.

Abstract

Apiospora is widely distributed throughout the world, and most of its hosts are Poaceae. In this study, Arthrinium-like strains were isolated from non-Poaceae in the Hainan and Fujian provinces of China. Based on the combined DNA sequence data of the internal transcriptional spacer (ITS), partial large subunit nuclear rDNA (LSU), translation extension factor 1-α gene (TEF1-α) and β-tubulin (TUB2), the collected Apiospora specimens were compared with known species, and three new species were identified. Based on morphological and molecular phylogenetic analyses, Apiospora adinandrae sp. nov., A. bawanglingensis sp. nov. and A. machili sp. nov. are described and illustrated.

Keywords: Ascomycota; multigene phylogeny; taxonomy.

Grants and funding

This research was funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 32300011), Ji’nan City’s ‘New University 20 Policies’ Initiative for Innovative Research Teams Project (202228028), and Key Technological Innovation Program of Shandong Province, China (2022CXGC020710).