Epicoccum poaceicola Thambugala & K. D. Hyde, Mycosphere.

Wang, Yuchun, Tu, Yiyi, Chen, Xueling, Jiang, Hong, Ren, Hengze, Lu, Qinhua, Wei, Chaoling & Lv, Wuyun, 2024, Didymellaceae species associated with tea plant (Camellia sinensis) in China, MycoKeys 105, pp. 217-251 : 217-251

Epicoccum poaceicola Thambugala & K. D. Hyde, Mycosphere. 8: 711. 2017

Description.

see Thambugala et al. (2017).

Materials examined.

China, Yunnan Province, Puer City, Jingdong Yizu Autonomous County, from healthy leaves of C. sinensis , 13 Jun 2020, Y. C. Wang, culture YCW 1948 .

Notes.

Epicoccum poaceicola is described as a new phoma-like species, based on phylogenetic analysis. It formed a distinct lineage closely related to E. sorghi (Fig. 3 ). Conidia produced by E. poaceicola were ellipsoidal to cylindrical and sometimes with small guttules ( Thambugala et al. 2017). Epicoccum poaceicola can cause leaf spot in bamboo, camphor tree and eggplant ( Liu et al. 2020; Li et al. 2022; Aementado and Balendres 2023). In the present study, seven strains were isolated from healthy tea plant leaves. This is the first report of E. poaceicola isolated from C. sinensis .

Figures

Figure 3. Phylogenetic tree generated by Maximum Likelihood analysis, based on the combined ITS, LSU, RPB 2 and TUB 2 dataset of Epicoccum species. Bootstrap support values above 50 % and Bayesian posterior values above 0.75 are shown at each node (ML / PP). Pleiochaeta setosa CBS 118.25 / CBS 496.63 and Co. palmarum CBS 400.71 are used as outgroups. Ex-type strains are emphasised in bold.