Moostea stephanieae Tedersoo, 2024

Tedersoo, Leho, Magurno, Franco, Alkahtani, Saad & Mikryukov, Vladimir, 2024, Phylogenetic classification of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: new species and higher-ranking taxa in Glomeromycota and Mucoromycota (class Endogonomycetes), MycoKeys 107, pp. 249-271 : 249-271

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3897/mycokeys.107.125549

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13286538

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0EF302DD-BD47-544E-A9A2-605C87529DC0

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scientific name

Moostea stephanieae Tedersoo
status

sp. nov.

Moostea stephanieae Tedersoo sp. nov.

Diagnosis.

Separation from other species of Moostea based on the ITS region (positions 68–97 gcagatgatcgtgagggagttctcttcttc; one mismatch allowed) and LSU (positions 436–455 tgggcttctgctccggcgta; one mismatch allowed) as indicated in Fig. 11 View Figure 11 .

Type.

Soil eDNA sample TUE 128417 (holotype); eDNA sequence EUK 1604044 (lectotype); GSMc plot G 5828, Malus domestica orchard (soil sample TUE 028417 ) in Mooste , Estonia, 58.15335 ° N, 27.19642 ° E GoogleMaps .

Description.

Other sequences: EUK 1600287 (LSU: type locality); EUK 1604043 and EUK 1603823 (both GSMc plot G 5835, airfield soil in Ridali, Estonia, 57.93692 ° N, 26.98099 ° E).

Etymology.

Mooste (Estonian) refers to type locality; and Stephanie (English) refers to the first name of Stephanie A. Eichorst who collected the first materials from the respective family.

Notes.

Found in two sites in Estonia, with ITS and LSU sequences displaying up to 1 % and 0.3 % differences, respectively.

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Moosteales

Family

Moosteaceae

Genus

Moostea