TY - JOUR
T1 - Bimuria omanensis sp. nov. (Didymosphaeriaceae, Pleosporales) from Oman
AU - Wijesinghe, Subodini N.
AU - Wijesinghe, Subodini N.
AU - Wijesinghe, Subodini N.
AU - Wanasinghe, Dhanushka N.
AU - Maharachchikumbura, Sajeewa S.N.
AU - Wang, Yong
AU - Al-Sadi, Abdullah M.
AU - Hyde, Kevin D.
AU - Hyde, Kevin D.
AU - Hyde, Kevin D.
N1 - Funding Information:
K.D. Hyde offers his gratitude to the Thailand Research Fund for grant no: DBG6080013 entitled “the future of specialist fungi in a changing climate: baseline data for generalist and specialist fungi associated with ants, Rhododendron species and Dracaena species. S.N. Wijesinghe thanks S.C. Karunarathne and U. Jayalal for their precious assistance during this study. D.N. Wanasinghe would like to thank the CAS President’s International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI) for funding his postdoctoral research (number 2019PC0008), the National Science Foundation of China and the Chinese Academy of Sciences for financial support under the following grants: 41761144055, 41771063 and Y4ZK111B01. Yong Wang would like to thank National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31972222, 31560489), Program of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities of China (111 Program, D20023), Science and Technology basic work of MOST [2014FY120100], Talent project of Guizhou Science and Technology Cooperation Platform ([2017]5788-5 and [2019]5641) and Guizhou Science, Technology Department International Cooperation Basic project ([2018]5806).
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2020 Magnolia Press.
PY - 2020/6/18
Y1 - 2020/6/18
N2 - Bimuria is a monotypic genus in Didymosphaeriaceae, typified by B. novae-zelandiae collected in terrestrial habitats from New Zealand soil. In our study, Bimuria omanensis, a novel species was isolated from unidentified decaying leaves in Oman. The phylogenetic placement of B. omanensis is resolved based on maximum likelihood, maximum parsimony and Bayesian analyses of combined LSU, ITS and TEF1-α sequence data of Didymosphaeriaceae. The placement of Bimuria omanensis as a distinct species, is confirmed based on phylogeny. This is the first record of an asexual morph in Bimuria and first record of a Bimuria species from Oman. The relationship of this taxon with other phylogenetically closely related Didymosphaeriaceae species is shown.
AB - Bimuria is a monotypic genus in Didymosphaeriaceae, typified by B. novae-zelandiae collected in terrestrial habitats from New Zealand soil. In our study, Bimuria omanensis, a novel species was isolated from unidentified decaying leaves in Oman. The phylogenetic placement of B. omanensis is resolved based on maximum likelihood, maximum parsimony and Bayesian analyses of combined LSU, ITS and TEF1-α sequence data of Didymosphaeriaceae. The placement of Bimuria omanensis as a distinct species, is confirmed based on phylogeny. This is the first record of an asexual morph in Bimuria and first record of a Bimuria species from Oman. The relationship of this taxon with other phylogenetically closely related Didymosphaeriaceae species is shown.
KW - 1 new species
KW - Dothideomycetes
KW - First record
KW - Morphology
KW - Phylogeny
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U2 - 10.11646/phytotaxa.449.2.1
DO - 10.11646/phytotaxa.449.2.1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85087357645
SN - 1179-3155
VL - 449
SP - 97
EP - 108
JO - Phytotaxa
JF - Phytotaxa
IS - 2
ER -