AUTHOR=Lu Xu , Cao Ting , Nguyễn Trang Thị Thu , Yuan Hai-Sheng 

TITLE=Six New Species of Tomentella (Thelephorales, Basidiomycota) From Tropical Pine Forests in Central Vietnam

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Microbiology

VOLUME=13

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/microbiology/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2022.864198

DOI=10.3389/fmicb.2022.864198

ISSN=1664-302X

ABSTRACT=<p>Up to this point, studies on the taxonomy and phylogeny of the basidiomycetous genus <italic>Tomentella</italic> stemmed mainly from the temperate to boreal zones of the Northern hemisphere but were scarce in tropical Asia. In this study, six new species—<italic>T. bidoupensis</italic>, <italic>T. brevisterigmata</italic>, <italic>T. cinereobrunnea</italic>, <italic>T. longiechinula</italic>, <italic>T. stipitobasidia</italic>, and <italic>T. verruculata</italic> from central Vietnam in Southeast Asia—are described and illustrated on the basis of morphological characteristics and molecular phylogenetic analyses of the nuclear ribosomal ITS (internal transcribed spacer: ITS1-5.8S-ITS2) and LSU (large subunit: 28S) markers. Maximum likelihood and Bayesian analyses were used to confirm the phylogenetic positions of these new species and all of them can be well recognized by the macroscopical and anatomical characteristics. The new species and closely related species in the phylogenetic tree, and the new species and morphologically similar species are discussed, whereas the host plant for these new species were speculated on the basis of the phylogenetic analyses and the tree species information of the investigated forests.</p>