Microsphaeropsis cytisicola (Artand & Mehrabi-Koushki & Tabein & Hyde & Jayawardena, 2022)

Artand, Saeid, Mehrabi-Koushki, Mehdi, Tabein, Saeid, Hyde, Kevin D. & Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., 2022, Revision of the Microsphaeropsis complex with addition of four new Paramicrosphaeropsis L. W. Hou, L. Cai & Crous species from Zagrosian forest trees in Iran, Cryptogamie, Mycologie 20 (7), pp. 159-175 : 165

Microsphaeropsis cytisicola

(Wanas., Camporesi, E.B.G.Jones & K.D.Hyde) M.Mehrabi-Koushki, K.D.Hyde & Jayaward., comb. nov.

Neomicrosphaeropsis cytisicola Wanas., Camporesi, E.B.G.Jones & K.D.Hyde , Studies in Fungi 3 (1): 169 (Wanasinghe et al. 2018).

MYCOBANK. — MB 841488.

DESCRIPTION

See Wanasinghe e t al. (2018).

NOTES

Neomicrosphaeropsis cytisicola was firstly isolated from dead aerial branches of Cytisus sp. (Fabaceae) in Italy and described by Wanasinghe et al. (2018) as a saprobic fungus.According to its position on the phylogenetic tree ( Fig. 1 ) and SNP analysis of four genomic regions, we transfer Neomicrosphaeropsis cytisicola to Microsphaeropsis . Nucleotide comparison of Microsphaeropsis cytisicola (Wanas., Camporesi, E.B.G.Jones & K.D.Hyde) M.Mehrabi-Koushki, K.D.Hyde & Jayaward. , comb. nov. with Neomicrosphaeropsis species showed a difference of 0.6% (3/521 bp) in the LSU region, 3% (13/431 bp) in the ITS, 13.6% (36/265 bp) in tub 2 and 10% (44/438 bp) in the rpb 2.

Figures

FIG. 1. — The ML phylogenetic tree obtained from the combined LSU-ITS, tub2 and rpb2 sequence data of strains belonging to the Microsphaeropsis complex. The tree was rooted to Vacuiphoma ferulae L.W.Hou, L.Cai & Crous. Taxa retrieved or reclassified newly are shown with red dots. Bootstrap values obtained in maximum likelihood (ML) and maximum parsimony (MP) analyses ≥ 0.50% and Bayesian posterior probability values (BYPP) ≥ 0.90% are shown at the nodes, respectively. The scale bar shows the expected number of changes per site. T letter indicates type strains.