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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Microbiol.
Sec. Aquatic Microbiology
Volume 15 - 2024 |
doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2024.1452499
This article is part of the Research Topic Freshwater Fungi: Diversity, Systematics, Evolution, Biology, Ecology, and Application View all 3 articles
Four novel species of Pleurotheciaceae collected from freshwater habitats in Jiangxi Province, China
Provisionally accepted
He Wen-Ming
1*
Zhang Jun-Bo
2
Zhi-Jun Zhai
1
Danushka S. Tennakoon
1
Cui Chao-Yu
1
Zhou Jianping
1
Chen Ming-Hui
1
Haijing Hu
1
Hua Yin
1
Gao Yang
1
Dian-Ming Hu
1*
Song Hai-Yan
1- 1 Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China
- 2 Kunming Edible Fungi Institute, China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives, Kunming, Yunnan Province, China
During an investigation of fungal diversity from freshwater environments in different regions in Jiangxi Province, China, four interesting species were collected. Morphology coupled with combined gene analysis of an ITS, LSU, SSU, and rpb2 DNA sequence data showed that they belong to the family Pleurotheciaceae. Four new species, Pleurotheciella ganzhouensis, Pla. irregularis, Pla. verrucosa and Pleurothecium jiangxiense are herein described. Pla. ganzhouensis is characterized by its capsule-shaped conidia and short conidiophores, while Pla. irregularis has amorphous conidiophores and 3-septate conidia. Pla. verrucosa has cylindrical or verrucolose conidiogenous cells, 1-septate, narrowly fusiform, meniscus or subclavate conidia. P. jiangxiense characterized in having conidiogenous cells with dense cylindrical denticles and short conidiophores. P. obovoideum was transferred to Neomonodictys based on phylogenetic evidence. All species are compared with other similar species and comprehensive descriptions, micrographs, and phylogenetic data are provided.
Keywords: diversity, four novel species, morphology, phylogeny, Pleurotheciella, Pleurothecium, Taxonomy
Received: 21 Jun 2024; Accepted: 12 Aug 2024.
Copyright: © 2024 Wen-Ming, Jun-Bo, Zhai, Tennakoon, Chao-Yu, Jianping, Ming-Hui, Hu, Yin, Yang, Hu and Hai-Yan. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
He Wen-Ming, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China
Dian-Ming Hu, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China
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