Microfungi in endemic plants of Brazil: Paubrasilia echinata (Brazilwood)

Abstract

ABSTRACT Brazilwood is an endemic species of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest and the microfungi associated with it are understudied. We present an extensive checklist of microfungi and report two new species discovered in the state of Bahia: Camposporium paubrasiliae sp. nov. and Xylomyces vesiculifer sp. nov. We also present seven new records of microfungal occurrence: Vermiculariopsiella arcicula Pasqualetti & Zucconi for the Americas, Junewangia lamma (Whitton, McKenzie & K.D.Hyde) W.A.Baker & Morgan-Jones, Monodictys abuensis (Chouhan & Panwar) V.Rao & de Hoog, and Sporidesmium altum (Preuss) M.B.Ellis for South America; and Phaeocandelabrum joseiturriagae R.F.Castañeda, Iturr., Heredia & M.Stadler, Sarcopodium circinatum Ehrenb., and Tetraploa ellisii Cooke, for Brazilwood. The checklist comprises 145 microfungal taxa, distributed among 94 genera, 49 families, 25 orders, seven classes, and three phyla, namely Ascomycota, Basidiomycota, and Mucoromycota. Furthermore, we provide a temporal analysis of the records and relevant bibliography on microfungi in Brazilwood, along with information on their ecological relationships and geographical distribution in Brazil.

Keywords

• Tropical microfungi
• endangered plant
• conservating microfungi.