Cryptosphaeria halophila Dayarathne &amp; K. D. Hyde 2020, sp. nov.
Creators: name: Dayarathne, Monika C.
name: Wanasinghe, Dhanushka N.
name: Devadatha, B.
name: Abeywickrama, Pranami
name: G, E. B.
name: Jones, areth
name: Chomnunti, Putarak
name: Sarma, V. V.
name: Hyde, Kevin D.
name: Lumyong, Saisamorn
name: C., Eric H.
name: , Mckenzie
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Dothideomycetes
Pleosporales
Didymellaceae
Cryptosphaeria
Cryptosphaeria halophila

description: <i>Cryptosphaeria halophila</i> Dayarathne &amp; K.D.Hyde, sp. nov. (Fig. 8) MYCOBANK. — MB 824293. FACESOFFUNGI NUMBER. — FoF 03945. ETYMOLOGY. — Name referring to the saline environment from which the fungus was derived. CULTURE CHARACTERS. — Reaching 2 cm within seven days on PDA, when incubated at 25°C, circular, flat, with diffuse margin, yellow, and becoming yellowish white, bright yellow to dull yellow with age. MATERIAL EXAMINED. — <b>Thailand</b>, Krabi Province, Tha Pom Khlong Nam, 8°12’50.4”N, 98°46’42.7”E, on attached, intertidal decayed wood of <i>Avicennia</i> sp. at a mangrove stand, 16.XII.2015, <i>M. Dayarathne</i>, KLA006 (holo-, MFLU [MFLU- 16-1199]). DISTRIBUTION. — Thailand. DESCRIPTION Saprobic on decaying stem of <i>Avicennia</i> sp. <i>Sexual morph</i> Undetermined. <i>Asexual morph</i> <b>Pycnidia.</b> 140-180 µm in diam., globose to subglobose, ostiolate, coriaceous, deeply immersed in a well-developed stroma. <b>Peridium.</b> 12-20 µm thick around the pycnidial venter, onelayered, yellow-brown to brown, composed of polygonal, cells with thick walls forming textura angularis. <b>Conidiophores.</b> 35-50 × 2-4 µm, 0-2-septate, cylindrical, hyaline, simple or branched, with one or more conidiogenous cells. <b>Conidiogenous cells.</b> 20-25 × 2.5-3.5 µm, hyaline, unicellular, with wide base and tapering tip, producing one conidium, determinate, conidiogenesis holoblastic. <b>Conidia.</b> 24-35 × 1-1.5 µm (ẍ = 36 × 2 µm, n = 30), onecelled, filiform, straight, curved or hook-like, hyaline to yellowish and apricot in mass. NOTES <i>Cryptosphaeria halophila</i> Dayarathne &amp; K.D.Hyde, sp. nov., is the first record of an asexual morph in this genus, reported from a marine habitat. <i>Libertella</i> -like asexual morphs have been reported from host substrates and axenic cultures in previous studies by Trouillas <i>et al.</i> (2015) and Mehrabi <i>et al.</i> (2016). In our phylogenetic analyses (ML and BI) with combined SSU+LSU sequence data, this species grouped with <i>Cr. ligniota</i> and <i>Cr. pullmanensis</i> as a separate lineage, but with poor bootstrap support (Fig. 3). MP results showed that this novel species nested with <i>Cryptosphaeria avicenniae</i> Devadatha &amp; V.V.Sarma, sp. nov., with no support (Fig. 4). The asexual morph of <i>Cryptosphaeria avicenniae</i> Devadatha &amp; V.V.Sarma, sp. nov., is similar to <i>Cryptosphaeria halophila</i> Dayarathne &amp; K.D.Hyde, sp. nov., and <i>Halocryptovalsa avicenniae</i>, comb. nov. (synonym of <i>Cryptovalsa avicenniae</i>) in conidiomatal and conidial morphology. However, our phylogenetic analyses showed that they are phylogenetically distinct (Figs 3-4). No cultures were obtained for this species since conidia did not germinate on any culture media used (WA, MEA/PDA, seawater MEA/PDA or CMA). We did not obtain ITS and Btub sequence data for this species by direct sequencing of fresh fruiting bodies, after several attempts with different temperature profiles. Hence, further taxon sampling, isolation and sequence data are required to further confirm phylogenetic placement of this taxon within this genus.
description: Published as part of <i>Dayarathne, Monika C., Wanasinghe, Dhanushka N., Devadatha, B., Abeywickrama, Pranami, G, E. B., Jones, areth, Chomnunti, Putarak, Sarma, V. V., Hyde, Kevin D., Lumyong, Saisamorn, C., Eric H. &amp; Mckenzie, 2020, Modern taxonomic approaches to identifying diatrypaceous fungi from marine habitats, with a novel genus Halocryptovalsa Dayarathne &amp; K. D. Hyde, gen. nov., pp. 21-67 in Cryptogamie, Mycologie 20 (3)</i> on pages 40-41, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2020v41a3, http://zenodo.org/record/7815042
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