Tropical species of Cladobotryum and Hypomyces producing red pigments
Twelve species of Hypomyces/Cladobotryum producing red pigments are reported growing in various tropical areas of the world. Ten of these are described as new, including teleomorphs for two previously known anamorphic species. In two species the teleomorph has been found in nature
and in three others it was obtained in culture; only anamorphs are known for the rest. None of the studied tropical collections belongs to the common temperate species H. rosellus and H. odoratus to which the tropical teleomorphic collections had previously been assigned. Instead,
taxa encountered in the tropics are genetically and morphologically distinct from the nine species of Hypomyces/Cladobotryum producing red pigments known from temperate regions. Besides observed host preferences, anamorphs of several species can spread fast on soft ephemeral agaricoid
basidiomata but the slower developing teleomorphs are mostly found on polyporoid basidiomata or bark. While a majority of previous records from the tropics involve collections from Central America, this paper also reports the diversity of these fungi in the Paleotropics. Africa appears to
hold a variety of taxa as five of the new species include material collected in scattered localities of this mostly unexplored continent. In examining distribution patterns, most of the taxa do not appear to be pantropical. Some species are known only from the Western Hemisphere, while others
have a geographic range from southeastern Asia to Africa or Australia. The use of various morphological characters of anamorphs and teleomorphs as well as culture characteristics in species delimitation is evaluated. For detecting genetic segregation, partial sequences of the two largest subunits
of the ribosomal polymerase perform the best in terms of providing informative sites and the number of well-supported groups recognised in the phylogenies. These are followed by the sequence data of the translation-elongation factor 1-alpha, while the ribosomal DNA ITS regions are of only
limited use in distinguishing species and their phylogenetic relationships. Taxonomic novelties:
Cladobotryum coriolopsicola (R.F. Castañeda) K. Põldmaa, comb. nov., Hypomyces aconidialis K. Põldmaa, sp. nov., Hypomyces australasiaticus K. Põldmaa,
sp. nov., Hypomyces gabonensis K. Põldmaa, sp. nov., Hypomyces samuelsii K. Põldmaa, sp. nov., Hypomyces virescens G.R.W. Arnold & K. Põldmaa, sp. nov., Cladobotryum heterosporum K. Põldmaa, sp. nov., Cladobotryum indoafrum
K. Põldmaa, sp. nov., Cladobotryum paravirescens K. Põldmaa, sp. nov., Cladobotryum protrusum K. Põldmaa, sp. nov., Cladobotryum tchimbelense K. Põldmaa, sp. nov.
Keywords: Hypocreaceae; Hypocreales; ITS rDNA; RPB1; RPB2; TEF1; aurofusarin; biogeography; fungiolous ascomycetes; systematics
Document Type: Research Article
Publication date: 01 March 2011
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