New Fusarium species from the Kruger National Park, South Africa

TY - JOUR

T1 - New Fusarium species from the Kruger National Park, South Africa

AU - Sandoval-Denis, Marcelo

AU - Swart, Wijnand J.

AU - Crous, Pedro W.

N1 - Publisher Copyright: Copyright Marcelo Sandoval-Denis et al. Copyright: Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.

PY - 2018/6/1

Y1 - 2018/6/1

N2 - Three new Fusarium species, F. convolutans, F. fredkrugeri, and F. transvaalense (Ascomycota, Hypocreales, Nectriaceae) are described from soils collected in a catena landscape on a research supersite in the Kruger National Park, South Africa. The new taxa, isolated from the rhizosphere of three African herbaceous plants, Kyphocarpa angustifolia, Melhania acuminata, and Sida cordifolia, are described and illustrated by means of morphological and multilocus molecular analyses based on sequences from five DNA loci (CAL, EF-1 α, RPB1, RPB2 and TUB). According to phylogenetic inference based on Maximum-likelihood and Bayesian approaches, the newly discovered species are distributed in the Fusarium buharicum, F. fujikuroi, and F. sambucinum species complexes.

AB - Three new Fusarium species, F. convolutans, F. fredkrugeri, and F. transvaalense (Ascomycota, Hypocreales, Nectriaceae) are described from soils collected in a catena landscape on a research supersite in the Kruger National Park, South Africa. The new taxa, isolated from the rhizosphere of three African herbaceous plants, Kyphocarpa angustifolia, Melhania acuminata, and Sida cordifolia, are described and illustrated by means of morphological and multilocus molecular analyses based on sequences from five DNA loci (CAL, EF-1 α, RPB1, RPB2 and TUB). According to phylogenetic inference based on Maximum-likelihood and Bayesian approaches, the newly discovered species are distributed in the Fusarium buharicum, F. fujikuroi, and F. sambucinum species complexes.

KW - Diversity

KW - Fungi

KW - Morphology

KW - Multigene

KW - Natural parks

KW - Phylogeny

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85049641546

U2 - 10.3897/mycokeys.34.25974

DO - 10.3897/mycokeys.34.25974

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85049641546

SN - 1314-4057

VL - 34

SP - 63

EP - 92

JO - MycoKeys

JF - MycoKeys

ER -