Seven new species of the Botryosphaeriaceae from baobab and other native trees in Western Australia

• Published in: Mycologia Vol. 100; no. 6; pp. 851 - 866
• Main Authors: Pavlic, Draginja, Wingfield, Michael J., Barber, Paul, Slippers, Bernard, Hardy, Giles E. St. J., Burgess, Treena I.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Taylor & Francis 01.11.2008; Mycologia Society of America
• Subjects: Adansonia - microbiology; Adansonia gibbosa; Ascomycota - classification; Ascomycota - cytology; Ascomycota - genetics; Ascomycota - isolation & purification; biodiversity; Biological taxonomies; Botryosphaeria; Branches; Conidia; Death; DNA, Fungal - genetics; DNA, Ribosomal Spacer - genetics; Dothiorella; Endemic species; Fungal Pathogens; Fungal Proteins - genetics; Fungi; Fusicoccum; Hyalin; Lasiodiplodia; Molecular Sequence Data; Mycelium; Neoscytalidium; Peptide Elongation Factor 1 - genetics; Phylogenetics; Phylogeny; Plant Bark - microbiology; Plant Diseases - microbiology; Pseudofusicoccum; Pycnidia; systematics; taxonomy; Trees - microbiology; Western Australia; Western Australia
• ISSN: 0027-5514; 1557-2536
• DOI: 10.3852/08-020

In this study seven new species of the Botryosphaeriaceae are described from baobab (Adansonia gibbosa) and surrounding endemic tree species growing in the Kimberley region of northwestern Australia. Members of the Botryosphaeriaceae were predominantly endophytes isolated from apparently healthy sapwood and bark of endemic trees; others were isolated from dying branches. Phylogenetic analyses of ITS and EF1-α sequence data revealed seven new species: Dothiorella longicollis, Fusicoccum ramosum, Lasiodiplodia margaritacea, Neoscytalidium novaehollandiae, Pseudofusicoccum adansoniae, P. ardesiacum and P. kimberleyense.