Four novel species of Pleurotheciaceae collected from freshwater habitats in Jiangxi Province, China

Wen-Ming He; Jun-Bo Zhang; Zhi-Jun Zhai; Danushka Sandaruwan Tennakoon; Chao-Yu Cui; Jian-Ping Zhou; Ming-Hui Chen; Hai-Jing Hu; Hua Yin; Yang Gao; Dian-Ming Hu; Hai-Yan Song

doi:10.3389/fmicb.2024.1452499

Four novel species of Pleurotheciaceae collected from freshwater habitats in Jiangxi Province, China

Front Microbiol. 2024 Aug 26:15:1452499. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2024.1452499. eCollection 2024.

Authors

Wen-Ming He^{1

2

3}, Jun-Bo Zhang⁴, Zhi-Jun Zhai^{1

2

3}, Danushka Sandaruwan Tennakoon², Chao-Yu Cui^{1

2

3}, Jian-Ping Zhou^{1

2

3}, Ming-Hui Chen^{1

2

3}, Hai-Jing Hu^{1

2

3}, Hua Yin^{1

2}, Yang Gao^{1

2

3}, Dian-Ming Hu^{1

2

3}, Hai-Yan Song^{1

2

5}

Affiliations

¹ Bioengineering and Technological Research Center for Edible and Medicinal Fungi, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China.
² Nanchang Key Laboratory of Edible and Medicinal Fungi, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China.
³ Jiangxi Key Laboratory for Excavation and Utilization of Agricultural Microorganisms, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, China.
⁴ Kunming Edible Fungi Institute of All China Federation of Supply and Marketing Cooperatives, Kunming, China.
⁵ Key Laboratory of Crop Physiology, Ecology and Genetic Breeding, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Ministry of Education of the P.R. China, Nanchang, China.

Abstract

During an investigation of fungal diversity from freshwater environments in different regions in Jiangxi Province, China, four interesting species were collected. Morphology coupled with combined gene analysis of an ITS, LSU, SSU, and rpb2 DNA sequence data showed that they belong to the family Pleurotheciaceae. Four new species, Pleurotheciella ganzhouensis, Pla. irregularis, Pla. verrucosa, and Pleurothecium jiangxiense are herein described. Pleurotheciella ganzhouensis is characterized by its capsule-shaped conidia and short conidiophores, while Pla. irregularis has amorphous conidiophores and 3-septate conidia. Pleurotheciella verrucosa has cylindrical or verrucolose conidiogenous cells, 1-septate, narrowly fusiform, meniscus or subclavate conidia. Pleurothecium jiangxiense characterized in having conidiogenous cells with dense cylindrical denticles and short conidiophores. Pleurothecium obovoideum was transferred to Neomonodictys based on phylogenetic evidence. All species are compared with other similar species and comprehensive descriptions, micrographs, and phylogenetic data are provided.

Keywords: Pleurotheciella; Pleurothecium; diversity; four novel species; morphology; phylogeny; taxonomy.

Grants and funding

The author(s) declare that financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. Funds for research were provided by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC 32060014 and NSFC 32070023), the earmarked fund for Jiangxi Agriculture Research System (2024), and the Forestry Science and Technology Innovation Project of Jiangxi Forestry Bureau of China [Innovation Special (2022) No. 9].