Tomentellopsis rosannae sp. nov. (Basidiomycota, Thelephorales), first species in the genus described from the Southern Hemisphere.
Francisco Kuhar,
Eduardo Nouhra,
Matthew E. Smith,
Marcos V. Caiafa,
Alina Greslebin
Affiliations
Francisco Kuhar
Innomy Biotech, Astondo bidea. Basque Country. Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal, Univ. Nac. de Córdoba. CONICET. Argentina
Eduardo Nouhra
Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales, Univ. Nac. de Córdoba. CONICET. Córdoba, Argentina
Matthew E. Smith
Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida. Florida, USA
Marcos V. Caiafa
Microbiology and Plant Pathology Department, University of California Riverside. Riverside, USA
Alina Greslebin
Facultad de Ciencias Naturales y Ciencias de La Salud, Universidad Nacional de La Patagonia San Juan Bosco (UNPSJB). CONICET. Esquel, Chubut, Argentina
Patagonian collections of the corticioid genus Tomentellopsis have been treated in the past as T. echinospora, a common northern hemisphere species. New collections with DNA sequence data are distinct from the northern hemisphere taxon and must be considered a different species, endemic to the temperate subantarctic forests of Patagonia. We use molecular and morphological methodologies to study this new corticioid fungus and describe it as Tomentellopsis rosannae sp. nov.
