Alloleptosphaeria iridicola (Crous & Denman) Voglmayr, 2020

Aiello, Dalia, Vitale, Alessandro, Polizzi, Giancarlo & Voglmayr, Hermann, 2020, Ochraceocephala foeniculi gen. et sp. nov., a new pathogen causing crown rot of fennel in Italy, MycoKeys 66, pp. 1-22 : 1

Alloleptosphaeria iridicola (Crous & Denman) Voglmayr comb. nov.

Basionym.

Subplenodomus iridicola Crous & Denman, in Crous, Schumacher, Wingfield, Akulov, Denman, Roux, Braun, Burgess, Carnegie, Váczy, Guatimosim, Schwartsburd, Barreto, Hernández-Restrepo, Lombard & Groenewald, Fungal Systematics and Evolution 1: 207. 2018.

Notes.

In the phylogenetic analyses (Fig. 2 ) Subplenodomus iridicola is placed remote from the other species of Subplenodomus , but is sister species to Alloleptosphaeria italica with maximum support; S. iridicola is therefore transferred to the genus Alloleptosphaeria .

Figures

Figure 2. Phylogram of the best ML tree (- lnL = 14211.5558) revealed by RAxML from an analysis of the combined SSU-ITS-LSU matrix of selected Leptosphaeriaceae, showing the phylogenetic position of Ochraceocephala foeniculi (bold red). Taxa in bold black denote new combinations proposed here. ML and MP bootstrap support above 50 % are given above or below the branches.