High diversity of Diaporthe species associated with dieback diseases in China, with twelve new species described
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Yang, Qin
Author
Fan, Xin-Lei
Author
Guarnaccia, Vladimiro
Author
Tian, Cheng-Ming
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MycoKeys
2018
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.39.26914
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.39.26914
1314-4049-39-97
Diaporthe unshiuensis F. Huang, K.D. Hyde & H.Y. Li, 2015
Figure 17
Description.
On PNA: Conidiomata pycnidial, globose or rostrated, black, erumpent in tissue, erumpent at maturity, 260-500
μm
diam, often with translucent conidial drops exuding from the ostioles. Conidiophores 18-28.5
x
1.4-2.1
μm
, cylindrical, hyaline, branched, septate, straight or curved, tapering towards the apex. Alpha conidia abundant in culture, hyaline, aseptate, ellipsoidal to fusiform, biguttulate, sometimes with one end obtuse and the other acute, 6.5-8.5
x
2.1-2.5
μm
(av. = 7.8
x
2.3
μm
, n = 30). Beta conidia not observed.
Figure 17.
Diaporthe unshiuensis
(CFCC 52594) A Culture on PNA B Conidiomata C Alpha conidia D Conidiophores. Scale bars: 500
μm
(B), 10
μm
(
C-D
).
Culture characters.
Cultures incubated on PNA at 25 °C in darkness. Colony entirely white at surface, reverse with pale brown pigmentation, white, fluffy aerial mycelium.
Specimens examined.
CHINA. Jiangsu Province: Nanjing city, on non-symptomatic twigs of
Carya illinoensis
, 10 Nov. 2015, Q. Yang, living culture CFCC 52594 and CFCC 52595 (BJFC-S1476).
Notes.
Diaporthe unshiuensis
was originally described from twigs of non-symptomatic
Fortunella margarita
in Zhejiang Province, China (
Huang et al. 2015
). In the present study, two isolates from twigs of asymptomatic
Carya illinoensis
were congruent with
D. unshiuensis
based on morphology and DNA sequences data (Fig. 1). We therefore describe
D. unshiuensis
as a known species for this clade.