Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust, Mrs. Macquaries Road, Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia.
Mycology Unit, Medical School and IISPV, Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Sant Llorenç 21, 43201 Reus, Tarragona, Spain.
World Agro forestry Centre East and Central Asia Ofӿce, 132 Lanhei Road, Kunming 650201, China. ; Key Laboratory for Plant Biodiversity and Biogeography of East Asia (KLPB), Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science,Kunming 650201, Yunnan China. ; Institute of Excellence in Fungal Research and School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand.
A.M.B. Gruppo Micologico Forlivese 'Antonio Cicognani', Via Roma 18, Forlì, Italy and A.M.B. Circolo Micologico 'Giovanni Carini',C.P.314,Brescia, Italy. ; Società per gli Studi Naturalisticidella Romagna, C.P. 144, Bagnacavallo (RA), Italy.
Department of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saudi University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Institute of Excellence in Fungal Research and School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand. ; Guizhou Key Laboratory of Agricultural Biotechnology, Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Xiaohe District, Guiyang City, Guizhou Province 550006, People's Republic of China.
Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Prof. Popov St. 2, RUS-197376, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Molecular and Applied Mycology and Plant Pathology Laboratory, Department of Botany, University of Calcutta, 35, Ballygunge Circular Road, Kolkata 700019, West Bengal, India.
Departamento de Ciencias de la Vida (Área de Botánica), Universidad de Alcalá, E-28805 Alcalá de Henares, Spain.
ALVALAB, La Rochela 47, E-39012, Santander, Spain.
Department of Biology, Madawalabu University, P.O. Box 247, Bale Robe, Ethiopia.
Centro de Investigación, Estudios y Desarrollo de Ingeniería (CIEDI), Facultad de Ingenierías y Ciencias Agropecuarias (FICA), Universidad de Las Américas, Calle José Queri s/n entre Av. Granados y Av. Eloy Alfaro, Quito, Ecuador.
Biosecurity Queensland, Ecosciences Precinct, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Dutton Park 4102, Queensland, Australia.
University of Minnesota, 495 Borlaug Hall, 1991 Upper Buford Circle, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA.
Centre for Phytophthora Science and Management, Murdoch University, 90 South Street, Murdoch, WA 6150, Australia.
Department of Genetics, Centre of Excellence in Tree Health Biotechnology (CTHB), Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of Pretoria, P. Bag X20, Pretoria, 0028, South Africa.
Senckenberg Museum of Natural History Görlitz, PF 300 154, 02806 Görlitz, Germany.
Mycothèque de l'Université catholique de Louvain (MUCL, BCCM ), Earth and Life Institute - ELIM - Mycology, Université catholique de Louvain, Croix du Sud 2 bte L7.05.06, B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
ARC - Plant Protection Research Institute, P. Bag X5017, Stellenbosch 7599, South Africa.
Roerdomplaan 222, 7905 EL Hoogeveen, The Netherlands.
California Department of Food and Agriculture, 3294 Meadowview Road, Sacramento, CA 95832, USA.
Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, Tehran, Iran.
Graduate School of Bioresources, Mie University, 1577 Kurima-machiya, Tsu, Mie 514-8507, Japan.
Iranian Biological Resource Center (IBRC), Academic Center for Education, Culture & Research (ACECR) Tehran, Iran.
Novel species of fungi described in the present study include the following from South Africa: Alanphillipsia aloeicola from Aloe sp., Arxiella dolichandrae from Dolichandra unguiscati, Ganoderma austroafricanum from Jacaranda mimosifolia, Phacidiella podocarpi and Phaeosphaeria podocarpi from Podocarpus latifolius, Phyllosticta mimusopisicola from Mimusops zeyheri and Sphaerulina pelargonii from Pelargonium sp. Furthermore, Barssia maroccana is described from Cedrus atlantica (Morocco), Codinaea pini from Pinus patula (Uganda), Crucellisporiopsis marquesiae from Marquesia acuminata (Zambia), Dinemasporium ipomoeae from Ipomoea pes-caprae (Vietnam), Diaporthe phragmitis from Phragmites australis (China), Marasmius vladimirii from leaf litter (India), Melanconium hedericola from Hedera helix (Spain), Pluteus albotomentosus and Pluteus extremiorientalis from a mixed forest (Russia), Rachicladosporium eucalypti from Eucalyptus globulus (Ethiopia), Sistotrema epiphyllum from dead leaves of Fagus sylvatica in a forest (The Netherlands), Stagonospora chrysopyla from Scirpus microcarpus (USA) and Trichomerium dioscoreae from Dioscorea sp. (Japan). Novel species from Australia include: Corynespora endiandrae from Endiandra introrsa, Gonatophragmium triuniae from Triunia youngiana, Penicillium coccotrypicola from Archontophoenix cunninghamiana and Phytophthora moyootj from soil. Novelties from Iran include Neocamarosporium chichastianum from soil and Seimatosporium pistaciae from Pistacia vera. Xenosonderhenia eucalypti and Zasmidium eucalyptigenum are newly described from Eucalyptus urophylla in Indonesia. Diaporthe acaciarum and Roussoella acacia are newly described from Acacia tortilis in Tanzania. New species from Italy include Comoclathris spartii from Spartium junceum and Phoma tamaricicola from Tamarix gallica. Novel genera include (Ascomycetes): Acremoniopsis from forest soil and Collarina from water sediments (Spain), Phellinocrescentia from a Phellinus sp. (French Guiana), Neobambusicola from Strelitzia nicolai (South Africa), Neocladophialophora from Quercus robur (Germany), Neophysalospora from Corymbia henryi (Mozambique) and Xenophaeosphaeria from Grewia sp. (Tanzania). Morphological and culture characteristics along with ITS DNA barcodes are provided for all taxa.
Keywords: ITS DNA barcodes; LSU; novel fungal species; systematics