Taxonomy and Phylogeny of Fungi Associated with Mangifera indica from Yunnan, China
Er-Fu Yang, Samantha C. Karunarathna, Dong-Qin Dai, Steven L. Stephenson, Abdallah M. Elgorban, Salim S. Al‐Rejaie, Yin-Ru Xiong, Itthayakorn Promputtha, Milan C. Samarakoon, Saowaluck Tibpromma
Abstract
During investigations of saprobic fungi associated with mango (Mangifera indica) in Baoshan and Honghe of Yunnan Province (China), fungal taxa belonging to the orders Botryosphaeriales, Calosphaeriales, Chaetothyriales, Diaporthales, and Xylariales were recorded. Morphological examinations coupled with phylogenetic analyses of multigene sequences (ITS, LSU, SSU, tef1-α, rpb1, rpb2, β-tubulin and CAL) were used to identify the fungal taxa. A new genus viz. Mangifericola, four new species viz. Cyphellophora hongheensis, Diaporthe hongheensis, Hypoxylon hongheensis, and Mangifericola hongheensis, four new host and geographical records viz. Aplosporella artocarpi, Hypomontagnella monticulosa, Paraeutypella citricola and Pleurostoma ootheca, and two new collections of Lasiodiplodia are reported.