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Two new species and one new record of Melampsora on willows from China

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Two new species of rust fungi, Melampsora salicis-purpureae sp. nov. and M. salicis-argyraceae sp. nov., and a new record, M. iranica, are described from China based on morphological characteristics and molecular phylogeny of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS1 and ITS2) regions including 5.8S of the ribosomal RNA gene. Melampsora salicis-purpureae on Salix purpurea was characterized by amphigenous uredinia, subepidermal teliospores, and relatively shorter teliospores and amphigenous telia. Melampsora salicis-argyraceae on S. argyaceae possessed sparse spines on urediniospores, epiphyllous telia and subepidermal teliospores with slightly thickened apex. In addition, specimens on S. alba and S. psammophyla were identified as M. iranica.

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Acknowledgments

We express our gratitude to Dr. Ming-Hao Pei (Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, UK), Dr. Zhi-Min Cao (Forestry College, Northwest A & F University, Yangling, China), Dr. Zhen-Shi Hou (Inner Mongolia Agricultural University, Inner Mongolia, China) and Dr. Tsuyoshi Hosoya (National Museum of Nature and Science, Tsukuba, Japan) for providing dried specimens for this study.

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Zhao, P., Tian, CM., Yao, YJ. et al. Two new species and one new record of Melampsora on willows from China. Mycol Progress 14, 66 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11557-015-1091-6

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