Epicoccum draconis (Berk. ex Cooke) Q. Chen et al.

Wang, Yuchun, Tu, Yiyi, Chen, Xueling, Jiang, Hong, Ren, Hengze, Lu, Qinhua, Wei, Chaoling & Lv, Wuyun, 2024, Didymellaceae species associated with tea plant (Camellia sinensis) in China, MycoKeys 105, pp. 217-251 : 217-251

Epicoccum draconis (Berk. ex Cooke) Q. Chen et al. , Studies in Mycology. 82: 172. 2015 b

Description.

see de Gruyter et al. (1998).

Materials examined.

China, Jiangsu Province, Yixing City, Zhangzhu Town , Furong Village , from diseased leaves of C. sinensis cv. Longjing 43, 19 Jun 2019, Y. C. Wang, culture YCW 101 .

Notes.

Epicoccum draconis was introduced as Phyllosticta draconis and Phoma draconis previously ( Chen et al. 2017). It formed a new combination by the ellipsoidal conidia ( Chen et al. 2017). In the present study, two isolates from diseased tea plant leaves grouped with E. draconis with high statistical support (Fig. 3 ). This is the first report of E. draconis causing leaf blight on C. sinensis .

Figures

Figure 3. Phylogenetic tree generated by Maximum Likelihood analysis, based on the combined ITS, LSU, RPB 2 and TUB 2 dataset of Epicoccum species. Bootstrap support values above 50 % and Bayesian posterior values above 0.75 are shown at each node (ML / PP). Pleiochaeta setosa CBS 118.25 / CBS 496.63 and Co. palmarum CBS 400.71 are used as outgroups. Ex-type strains are emphasised in bold.