Mycosphere Notes 572-624: Exploring the hidden diversity of fungi and fungilike taxa in different terrestrial microhabitats
SN Wijesinghe, Yuanyu Deng, Qing Yuan, HM Zhou, Long Wang, Yan Dai, Yihan Xu, Na Jiang, Fatimah Al-Otibi, Abdullah M. Al‐Sadi, Benyi Cao, Qingyan Chen, Nimali I. de Silva, Jiaqi Dong, W Dong, TY Du, Z. Y. Gu, Shuang‐Hui He, Qingwu Jiang, Feng Li, Qiao Li, Wen Li, Pengfei Liu, W-X Liu, XY Liu, ZB Liu, WH Lu, SSN Maharachchikumbura, JQ Su, SM Tang, Danushka S. Tennakoon, XC Wang, Wei Xiao, Minqiang Xie, Xiaomei Yang, Yufeng Yang, Yang Yu, YH Yang, YT Yang, JL Zhang, Shicui Zhang, Xicheng Zhang, Xingju Zhang, Qiang Zhou, Moza Al‐Kharousi, Dua’a Al-Maqbali, Arwa A. Al‐Owaisi, Mohamed N. Al-Yahya’ei, Xiuli Han, Sinang Hongsanan, S. Hussain, J. Jin, SC Karunarathna, CT Li, Shiliang Li, Yi Li, Zong-Long Luo, Ishara S. Manawasinghe, LY Peng, Naritsada Thongklang, WH Tian, Saowaluck Tibpromma, Rethinasamy Velazhahan, YP Xiao, ZJ Zhang, HJ Zhao, Rui-Lin Zhao, AR Rathnayaka, Dhanushka N. Wanasinghe, KD Hyde, CL Zhao
Abstract
This is the 14th in a series of Mycosphere notes where we provide entries on new species and higher taxa, including new host records, and geographical (country) records of fungi and fungi-like species. In this study, we introduce 51 new taxa including one new genus, viz. Roseosporodochia and eight new species in Ascomycota, viz. Occultibambusa guizhouensis, Periconia baotouensis, Teichospora pini (Dothideomycetes), Basingstokeomyces cryptomeriae (Leotiomycetes), Apiospora dongruensis, Pseudolachnella chinensis, Roseosporodochia magnoliae, Trichoderma zhuangii (Sordariomycetes); two new genera, viz. Grandicium, Membranohymenium, and 39 new species in Basidiomycota, viz. Agaricus wadidarbaticus, Amyloxenasma cremeum, Am. tenuissimum, Athelopsis albofarinaceus, Burgella yunnanensis, Byssocorticium yunnanense, Cerioporus nigromarginatus, Crepidotus pusillus, Cylindrobasidium subbifidum, Grammothele albobadia, Grandicium tenuissimum, Gymnopus linzhiensis, Hymenochaete malaysiana, Hyphoderma fragilissimum, Hyp. punctatum, Hyp. yingjiangense, Inocybe griseum, Lopharia fissurata, Mariorajchenbergia yunnanensis, Membranohymenium grandinioides, Microporellus oblongosporus, Phanerochaete yingjiangensis, Phlegmacium sinovariecolor, Physisporinus pingbianensis, Punctularia fragilis, Scleroderma roseobrunneum, Sebacina yunnanensis, Sistotrema albofarinaceum, Si. fissuratum, Skeletocutis fissurata, Sk. wumenshanensis, Thelephora tropica, Trechispora alborhizomorpha, Tre. mangensis, Tubulicium yunnanense, Vuilleminia bambusicola, V. punctata (Agaricomycetes), Solicoccozyma humicola (Tremellomycetes); one new species in Mucoromycota, Cunninghamella variabilis (Mucoromycetes); and one new species of fungi-like organisms in Amoebozoa, Dictyostelium gracilidiscobasis (Dictyosteliomycetes). We further discussed two new records of Solicoccozyma aeria (Agaricomycetes) and Ophiocordyceps vespulae (Sordariomycetes) by expanding their ecology and geographic relationships. The taxonomic boundaries of these 53 taxa of fungi and fungi-like organisms, which belong to 42 genera, were confirmed using detailed morphology combined with molecular genetics. They were associated with plants, insects, and soil microhabitats with high substrate diversity, e.g., on plants (dead or decaying wood, roots, living infected leaves, leaf litter-associated insects), even in desert habitats, on basidiomata, on soil (in, on), even in frozen soil from Chinese, Omani, and Malaysian collecting sites. This study encourages mycologists, especially taxonomists to explore the undocumented fungal diversity across under-surveyed geographical sites, habitats, hosts, and substrates worldwide.