The Genera of Fungi - G7: Hirudinaria

M Bakhshi; P W Crous

doi:10.3114/fuse.2024.14.01

The Genera of Fungi - G7: Hirudinaria

Fungal Syst Evol. 2024 Dec:14:1-8. doi: 10.3114/fuse.2024.14.01. Epub 2024 Feb 7.

Authors

M Bakhshi¹, P W Crous^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, P.O. Box 19395-1454, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Tehran, Iran.
² Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, Uppsalalaan 8, 3584 CT Utrecht, The Netherlands.
³ Department of Genetics, Biochemistry and Microbiology, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 0002, South Africa.

Abstract

The current paper represents the seventh contribution in the Genera of Fungi series, linking type species of fungal genera to their morphology and DNA sequence data. This manuscript focuses on a genus of dematiaceous hyphomycetes, Hirudinaria. Two species of this genus are treated in this study. Hirudinaria mespili, the type species of the genus, as well as Hirudinaria macrocarpa, are epitypified and provided with DNA sequence data to resolve their phylogeny as members of Mycosphaerellaceae (Mycosphaerellales, Dothideomycetes). Citation: Bakhshi M, Crous PW (2024). The Genera of Fungi - G7: Hirudinaria. Fungal Systematics and Evolution 14: 1-8. doi: 10.3114/fuse.2024.14.01.

Keywords: Mycosphaerellaceae; epitypification; multigene; phylogeny; systematics.