Check List 17(5): 1243-1248, doi: 10.15560/17.5.1243

First occurrence of Nigrospora lacticolonia Mei Wang & L. Cai (Xylariales, Ascomycota) in the Neotropical Region

Deyse Viana dos Santos^‡, Rejane Maria Ferreira da Silva^‡, Paula Aguilera^§, Gladstone Alves da Silva^‡, José Luiz Bezerra^|, Rafael José Vilela de Oliveira^‡

‡ Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil§ Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco, Chile| Universidade Federal do Recôncavo da Bahia, Cruz das Almas, Brazil

Corresponding author: Deyse Viana dos Santos ( deysevianas25@gmail.com )

Academic editor: Renan Barbosa

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Citation: Santos DV, Silva RMF, Aguilera P, Silva GA, Bezerra JL, Oliveira RJV (2021) First occurrence of Nigrospora lacticolonia Mei Wang & L. Cai (Xylariales, Ascomycota) in the Neotropical Region. Check List 17(5): 1243-1248. https://doi.org/10.15560/17.5.1243

Abstract

During a study on fungal endophyte diversity, Nigrospora lacticolonia Mei Wang & L. Cai was isolated from healthy leaves of Guarea macrophylla, a shade tree in the Cocoa agroecosystem (cabruca) in Brazil. We confirmed the identity of the specimens using morphological data and a phylogenetic reconstruction based on molecular markers (internal transcribed spacer region (ITS), β-tubulin (TUB2), and translation elongation factor 1-α (TEF) sequences). The specimen presented black globose or slightly ellipsoidal conidia, and the conidiophores were reduced to conidiogenous cells. This is the first report of N. lacticolonia in the Neotropical Region.

Keywords

Atlantic Forest, Cocoa crop, endophytic fungi, Guarea macrophylla, Sordariomycetes