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Sebacina sp. is a mycorrhizal partner of Comarostaphylis arbutoides (Ericaceae)

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Sebacina (Sebacinales) forms ectomycorrhiza, arbutoid, ericoid, jungermannioid, cavendishioid and orchid mycorrhiza with diverse plant species. The woody plant Comarostaphylis arbutoides (Ericaceae) forms arbutoid mycorrhiza with Leccinum monticola. However, further morphotypes have hitherto not been described. C. arbutoides grows in tropical Central America at an elevation of 2,500–3,430 m a.s.l., where it is found as understory vegetation in forests or forms extensive thickets. It shares ectomycorrhizal fungi with Quercus species, thereby being a refuge for these fungi after forest clearance of the oaks. We collected arbutoid mycorrhizas of C. arbutoides from the Cerro de la Muerte (Cordillera de Talamanca) in Costa Rica, where it grows together with Quercus costaricensis. Sebacina sp. was identified after sequencing the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) and large subunit (LSU) rDNA regions, and their phylogenetic analyses. The morphotype Sebacina sp.-C. arbutoides was described morphologically and anatomically.

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Acknowledgments

The authors are indebted to the German Research Foundation (DFG) for funding this project (Mu 1035/15-1). We thank Prof. Agerer for his help with studying mycorrhizas. We are grateful to Monika Roth for excellent technical assistance. We also thank Federico Valverde and Silvia Lobo Cabezas for their assistance in the cloud forests of Costa Rica, and Mary Lavin-Zimmer from the German Research Centre (GFZ) for English corrections.

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  1. Institute of Landscape Biogeochemistry, Leibniz-Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Eberswalder Straße 84, 15374, Müncheberg, Germany

    K. Kühdorf & B. Münzenberger

  2. AG Geobotany, Ruhr-University of Bochum, Universitätsstraße 150, 44780, Bochum, Germany

    D. Begerow

  3. Institute of Evolution and Ecology, Chair of Plant Evolutionary Ecology, University of Tübingen, Auf der Morgenstelle 1, 72076, Tübingen, Germany

    C. Karasch-Wittmann

  4. Escuela de Biología, University of Costa Rica, CP 11501-2060, San José, Costa Rica

    J. Gómez-Laurito

  5. Chair of Soil Protection and Recultivation, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Box 101344, 03013, Cottbus, Germany

    R. F. Hüttl

  6. German Research Centre of Geosciences Potsdam (GFZ), Telegrafenberg, 14473, Potsdam, Germany

    R. F. Hüttl

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Kühdorf, K., Münzenberger, B., Begerow, D. et al. Sebacina sp. is a mycorrhizal partner of Comarostaphylis arbutoides (Ericaceae). Mycol Progress 13, 733–744 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11557-013-0956-9

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