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Corresponding author: Xiu-Lan Xu ( xuxiulanxxl@126.com ) Corresponding author: Chun-Lin Yang ( yangcl0121@163.com ) Academic editor: Nalin Wijayawardene
© 2020 Xiu-Lan Xu, Chun-Lin Yang, Rajesh Jeewon, Dhanushka N. Wanasinghe, Ying-Gao Liu, Qian-Gang Xiao.
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Xu X-L, Yang C-L, Jeewon R, Wanasinghe DN, Liu Y-G, Xiao Q-G (2020) Morpho-molecular diversity of Linocarpaceae (Chaetosphaeriales): Claviformispora gen. nov. from decaying branches of Phyllostachys heteroclada. MycoKeys 70: 1-17. https://doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.70.54231
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In this paper, Claviformispora gen. nov. in Linocarpaceae is introduced from Phyllostachys heteroclada in Sichuan Province, China. The new genus is characterised by its distinct morphological characters, such as ostiole with periphyses, asci with a thick doughnut-shaped, J- apical ring and clavate ascospore without septum-like band and appendage. Maximum Likelihood and Bayesian Inference phylogenetic analyses, based on DNA sequence data from ITS, LSU, SSU and TEF-1α regions, provide further evidence that the fungus is a distinct genus within this family. The new genus is compared with similar genera, such as Linocarpon and Neolinocarpon. Descriptions, illustrations and notes are provided for the new taxon.
bambusicolous fungi, one new genus and species, phylogeny, taxonomy
The order Chaetosphaeriales Huhndorf, A.N. Mill. & F.A. Fernández (Sordariomycetes) was introduced in Sordariomycetidae O.E. Erikss. & Winka, based on LSU sequence data (
The genus Leptosporella was introduced with L. gregaria Penz. & Sacc., 1897 as the type species by
The present research is a part of our investigations on the taxonomic and phylogenetic circumscriptions of pathogenic and saprobic micro-fungi associated with bamboo in Sichuan Province, China. In this paper, we introduce a new genus Claviformispora in Linocarpaceae, typified by C. phyllostachydis from Phyllostachys heteroclada Oliv., 1894 (Poaceae). The morphological differences and analyses of a combined ITS, LSU, SSU and TEF-1α sequence dataset support the validity of the new genus and its placement in Linocarpaceae. The new genus is compared with other genera in the family. The comprehensive descriptions and micrographs of new taxa are provided.
Bamboo materials were collected from Ya’an City, China. Single ascospore isolations were carried out following the method described by
Total genomic DNA was extracted from mycelium that were grown on PDA at 25 °C for two weeks using a Plant Genomic DNA extraction kit (Tiangen, China) following the manufacturer’s instructions. The primers pairs LR0R and LR5 (
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was performed in 25 μl final volumes containing 22 μl of Master Mix (Beijing TsingKe Biotech Co. Ltd.), 1 μl of DNA template, 1 μl of each forward and reverse primers (10 μM). The PCR thermal cycle programmes for LSU, SSU, ITS and TEF1-α gene were amplified as: initial denaturation 94 °C for 3 minutes, followed by 35 cycles of denaturation at 94 °C for 30 seconds, annealing at 55 °C for 50 seconds, elongation at 72 °C for 1 minute and final extension at 72 °C for 10 minutes. PCR products were sequenced with the above-mentioned primers at TsingKe Biological Technology Co. Ltd, Chengdu, China. The newly-generated sequences from the LSU, SSU, TEF-1α and ITS regions were deposited in GenBank (Table
Taxa to be used for phylogenetic analyses were selected, based on results generated from nucleotide BLAST searches online in GenBank and recent publications (
Maximum Likelihood analysis and Bayesian Inference analysis were generated by using the CIPRES Science Gateway web server (Miller 2010). RAxML-HPC2 on XSEDE (8.2.10) (
Phylogenetic trees were visualised with FigTree v.1.4.3 (
Phylogenetic analyses of a combined dataset (ITS, LSU, SSU, TEF-1α) comprises 51 taxa within the order Chaetosphaeriales (Table
Species name | Strain | GenBank accession number | |||
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LSU | ITS | SSU | TEF | ||
Chloridium aquaticum |
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MH476567 | MH476570 | MH476573 | – |
Chloridium aseptatum |
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MH476568 | NR_158365 | MH476574 | – |
Claviformispora phyllostachydis | SICAUCC 16-0004 | MT232720 | MT232736 | MT232735 | MT240855 |
Cryptophiale hamulata |
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MG386756 | – | MG386757 | – |
Cryptophiale udagawae |
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MH758211 | MH758198 | MH758205 | – |
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MH758210 | MH758197 | MH758204 | – | |
Dictyochaeta siamensis |
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KX609952 | KX609955 | – | – |
Dictyochaeta assamica |
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MH870426 | MH858788 | – | – |
Dictyochaeta pandanicola |
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MH376710 | MH388338 | MH388307 | MH388373 |
Dictyochaeta terminalis | GZCC 18-0085 | MN104624 | MN104613 | MN104633 | – |
Echinosphaeria canescens | SMH4666 | KF765605 | – | – | – |
SMH4791 | AY436403 | – | – | – | |
Endophragmiella dimorphospora | FMR_12150 | KY853502 | KY853442 | HF937351 | – |
Gelasinospora tetrasperma |
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DQ470980 | NR_077163 | DQ471032 | DQ471103 |
Helminthosphaeria clavariarum | SMH4609 | AY346283 | – | – | – |
Hilberina caudata | SMH1542 | KF765615 | – | – | – |
Infundibulomyces cupulata | BCC11929 | EF113979 | EF113976 | EF113982 | – |
Infundibulomyces oblongisporus | BCC13400 | EF113980 | EF113977 | EF113983 | – |
Kionochaeta castaneae | GZCC 18-0025 | MN104621 | MN104610 | MN104630 | – |
Kionochaeta microspora | GZCC 18-0036 | MN104618 | MN104607 | MN104627 | – |
Leptosporella arengae |
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MG272246 | MG272255 | MG366594 | MG272259 |
Leptosporella bambusae |
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KU863122 | KU940134 | – | – |
Leptosporella cocois |
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– | MG272256 | – | – |
Leptosporella gregaria | SMH4290 | AY346290 | – | – | – |
SMH4673 | HM171287 | – | – | – | |
Leptosporella elaeidis |
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MK659772 | MK659767 | MK659774 | MN883560 |
Linocarpon arengae |
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MG272247 | – | MG366596 | – |
Linocarpon cocois |
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MG272248 | MG272257 | MG272253 | – |
Menispora tortuosa |
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AY544682 | KT225527 | AY544723 | – |
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AF178558 | AF178558 | – | – | |
Menisporopsis anisospora |
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MH874421 | MH862827 | – | – |
Menisporopsis breviseta | GZCC 18-0071 | MN104623 | MN104612 | MN104632 | – |
Menisporopsis dushanensis | GZCC 18-0084 | MN104626 | MN104615 | MN104635 | – |
Menisporopsis pandanicola | KUMCC 17-0271 | MH376726 | MH388353 | MH388320 | MH388388 |
Menisporopsis theobromae |
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KX609954 | KX609957 | – | – |
Neolinocarpon arengae |
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MG272249 | MG272258 | MG366597 | – |
Neolinocarpon rachidis |
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MG272250 | – | MG366598 | – |
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MK106353 | MK106342 | MK106367 | – | |
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MK106354 | – | MK106368 | ||
Neolinocarpon phayaoense |
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MG581933 | – | MG581936 | MG739512 |
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MG581934 | – | MG581937 | MG739513 | |
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MG581935 | – | MG581938 | MG739514 | |
Phialosporostilbe scutiformis |
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MH758207 | MH758194 | MH758201 | – |
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MH758212 | MH758199 | – | – | |
Ruzenia spermoides | SMH4606 | AY436422 | – | – | – |
SMH4655 | KF765619 | – | – | – | |
Synaptospora plumbea | ANM963 | KF765620 | – | – | – |
SMH3962 | KF765621 | – | – | – | |
Sordaria fimicola |
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MH868251 | MH856730 | – | – |
Zanclospora iberica | FMR 11584 | KY853544 | KY853480 | HF937360 | – |
FMR 12186 | KY853545 | KY853481 | HF937361 | – |
The best scoring RAxML tree with the final optimisation had a likelihood value of -26,415.700648. The matrix had 1,751 distinct alignment patterns and 64.64% in this alignment is the gaps and completely undetermined characters. Estimated base frequencies were as follows: A = 0.236065, C = 0.261532, G = 0.295313, T = 0.207091, with substitution rates AC = 1.062535, AG = 1.855434, AT = 0.940219, CG = 1.052604, CT = 4.590285, GT = 1.000000. The gamma distribution shape parameter α = 0.311923 and the Tree-Length = 2.281738. The Bayesian analysis resulted in 20,502 trees after 8,000,000 generations. The first 25% of trees (1,624 trees), which represent the burn-in phase of the analyses were discarded, while the remaining 4,878 trees were used for calculating posterior probabilities. Bayesian posterior probabilities were evaluated by MCMC with a final average standard deviation of split frequencies = 0.009877.
Phylogenetic trees generated from Maximum Likelihood (ML) and Bayesian Inference analyses were similar in overall topologies. Phylogeny from the combined sequence data analysis indicates that all families were monophyletic with strong bootstrap support values (Fig.
Phylogram of RAxML analysis based on a combined ITS, LSU, SSU and TEF-1α sequence dataset within order Chaetosphaeriales. Bootstrap support values for maximum likelihood (ML, left) greater than 70% and Bayesian posterior probabilities (PP, right) equal to or greater than 0.95 are indicated at the nodes. The tree is rooted to Gelasinospora tetrasperma (
Linocarpon Syd. & P. Syd.
Saprobic and endophytic fungi on monocotyledons and rarely dicotyledons. Sexual morph: Ascomata solitary or aggregated, superficial or immersed comprising black, dome-shaped or subglobose, slightly raised blistering areas with a central ostiole or immersed with a black shiny papilla. Peridium composed of dark brown to black cells of textura angularis. Hamathecium comprising septate paraphyses that are longer than asci, wider at the base, tapering towards the apex. Asci 8-spored, unitunicate, cylindrical, with a J-, apical ring, developing from the base and periphery of the ascomata. Ascospores parallel or spiral in asci, hyaline or pale yellowish in mass, filiform or claviform, straight or curved, unicellular with or without refringent bands, with or without polar appendages. Asexual morph: Phialophora-like spp. were found in Linocarpon appendiculatum and L. elaeidis cultures (
Linocarpaceae was introduced as a new family to accommodate Linocarpon and Neolinocarpon species, based on morphology and phylogeny (
Claviformispora phyllostachydis X. L. Xu & C. L. Yang
Name reflects the claviform ascospores.
Saprobic on dead branches. Sexual morph: Stromata solitary or gregarious, black, erumpent. Ascomata solitary or aggregated, immersed, subglobose, slightly raised blistering areas with a central ostiole with periphyses. Peridium outer cells merging with the host tissues, composed of pale to dark brown cells of textura angularis. Hamathecium comprising hyaline, septate paraphyses, longer than asci, wider at the base, tapering towards the apex. Asci 8-spored, cylindrical to cylindric-clavate, unitunicate, short pedicellate, apically rounded, with a doughnut-shaped, refractive, J- apical ring. Ascospores overlapping uniseriate or 2-seriate, clavated with a thin pedicellate, 1-celled, hyaline, without appendage and refringent bands, smooth-walled. Asexual morph: Undetermined.
Claviformispora resembles Neolinocarpon in having immersed ascomata and ostiole with periphyses, but differs in forming aggregated ascomata, cylindric-clavate, short pedicellate asci, clavate ascospores with thin pedicel and without septa-like bands and appendages, whereas the ascospores of Neolinocarpon and Linocarpon (Linocarpaceae) species are usually filiform with refringent bands and appendages (
Morphological comparison of Linocarpon, Neolinocarpon and Claviformispora.
Morphology | Linocarpon | Neolinocarpon | Claviformispora |
(Type: L. pandani) | (Type: N. globosicarpum) | (Type: C. phyllostachydis) | |
Stromata | Absent | Absent | Solitary or aggregated, comprising elliptical areas and large black areas, with slit-like openings |
Ascomata | Solitary, superficial, subglobose, comprising black, dome-shaped, raised blistering areas, central ostiole | Solitary, deeply immersed, oval to globose, with central raised, dark, shiny papilla, central ostiole with periphyses | Solitary or aggregated, deeply immersed, subglobose, slightly raised blistering areas, central ostiole with periphyses |
Peridium | Textura angularis | Textura angularis | Textura angularis |
Hamathecium | Hyaline, septate paraphyses, longer than asci | Hyaline, septate paraphyses, longer than asci | Hyaline, septate paraphyses, longer than asci |
Asci | Cylindrical, unitunicate, a small non-amyloid apical ring | Long cylindrical, pedicellate, unitunicate, an oblong to wedge-shaped, refractive, apical ring and some with a refractive circular body below | Cylindrical to cylindric-clavate, unitunicate, pedicellate, doughnut-shaped, refractive, J- apical ring |
Ascospores | Filiform, aseptate, hyaline or pale-yellowish in mass, parallel or spiral, with appendage and refringent septum-like bands or absent | Filiform, aseptate, hyaline or pale-yellowish in mass, parallel or spiral, with apical appendages and refringent bands or absent | Clavate, thin pedicellate, aseptate, hyaline, parallel, no appendage and refringent band |
Asexual morph | Only found in L. appendiculatum and L. elaeidis, conidiophore arising from the aerial mycelium, conidiogenous cells phialidic, smooth, translucent brown, conidia clavate to fusiform, straight or slightly curved or slightly sinuous, unicellular, smooth, colourless | Undetermined | Undetermined |
Others | Colonies on MEA and PDA growing slowly | Colonies on MEA growing slowly. Ascospores on MEA produced appressoria-like structures at each tip of germ tube, only found in N. rachidis | Colonies on PDA grow faster |
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China, Sichuan Province, Ya’an City, Yucheng Distinct, Kongping Township, alt. 1133 m, 29°50.14'N, 103°03'E, on dead branches of Phyllostachys heteroclada Oliv. (Poaceae), 11 December 2016, C. L. Yang and X. L. Xu, YCL201612002 (
Claviformispora phyllostachydis (
The specific epithet refers to the host genus Phyllostachys.
Saprobic on dead branches of Phyllostachys heteroclada Oliv. Sexual morph: Stromata solitary comprising elliptical areas or aggregated in large black areas, slightly raised with slit-like openings presenting on host surface. Ascomata 120–240 μm high × 220–490 μm diameter (x̄ = 189 × 345 μm, n = 20), perithecial, immersed, central, papillate ostiole with periphyses, oval-globose in section, the cells between the perithecia are composed with tissue of stromata and host. Peridium 20–40 μm wide (x̄ = 33 μm, n = 10), outer cells merging with the host tissues, composed of pale to dark brown cells of textura angularis. Hamathecium comprising hyaline, hypha-like, septate paraphyses, occasionally branched, longer than asci, wider at the base, 2–4 μm diameter (x̄ = 2.7 μm, n = 20) tapering towards the apex, 0.78–1.20 μm diameter (x̄ = 0.98 μm, n = 20). Asci 90–160 × 9–15 μm (x̄ = 118 × 13 μm, n = 20), 8-spored, cylindrical to cylindric-clavate, unitunicate, short pedicellate, apically rounded, with a massive, doughnut-shaped, refractive, J- reaction, apical ring. Ascospores 35–50 × 5.7–8.6 μm (x̄ = 45.7 × 7.0 μm, n = 40), overlapping uniseriate or 2-seriate, claviform typically with a thin pedicel, aseptate, hyaline, straight or slight curved, without appendage and septum-like bands, guttulate when maturity. Asexual morph: Undetermined.
Ascospores germinated on PDA within 12 hours at both ends. Colonies on PDA reaching 5 cm diameter after 7 days at 25 °C, white to grey with strong radiations outwards on forward side. Colonies became dark brown and black on the reverse after a long time of cultivation. The hyphae are septate, branched, smooth.
This study establishes a new genus and also provides further insights into the phylogeny of members associated with Linocarpaceae. Morphologically-based examinations of Claviformispora (as discussed above) clearly show that the morphological circumscriptions (familial concept) of species should be broadened and possibly indicate that this family is much more diverse than expected. Our collection can be clearly distinguished from other groups of similar fungi in Linocarpaceae with its interesting ascospore morphology. In addition, we also noted some peculiarities in the DNA sequences we analysed. A comparison of ITS sequences, based on BLAST reveals 34%, 26% and 30% base pair differences with L. cocois (
Species of Linocarpaceae have been found on Arecaceae, Poaceae, Euphorbiaceae, Zingiberaceae, Pandanaceae, Fagaceae, Fabaceae and Smilacaceae, including Arenga, Attalea, Calamus, Trachycarpus, Acrocomia, Archontophoenix, Cocos, Daemonorops, Licuala, Livistona, Plectocomia, Phoenix, Raphia, Sabal, Mauritia, Nypa, Elaeis, Pinanga, Eugeissona, Pennisetum, Gramineae, Stipa, unidentified bamboo, Hevea, Manihot, Alpinia, Pandanus, Quenrcus, Cajanus and Smilax (
Phyllostachys heteroclada, mainly a food source and use as a material in the weaving industry, is distributed along the Yellow River Valley and the southern Provinces in China. It is common in the mountainous areas of Sichuan Province with distribution up to 1,500 m above sea level (
We all thank Dr. Shaun Pennycook for his help with the nomenclature of the novel species. Xiu-Lan Xu thanks the Chengdu Science and Technology Bureau for funding her research. Ying-Gao Liu and Chun-Lin Yang acknowledge the “Study on identification of pathogenic fungi and prevention techniques for witches’ broom of Phyllostachys violascens” (fund from the Bureau of Economic Information and Science & Technology of Yucheng District in Ya’an City) for supporting this work. Dhanushka Wanasinghe would like to thank CAS President’s International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI) for funding his postdoctoral research (number 2019PC0008) and the National Science Foundation of China and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (grant no.: 41761144055). R Jeewon thanks University of Mauritius for support.
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