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Multilocus phylogenetic analysis reveals that Cyttariales is a synonym of Helotiales
- Source :
- Mycological Progress. 20:1323-1330
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2021.
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Abstract
- Cyttaria is a morphologically and biologically distinct genus comprising wood-inhabiting species that are biotrophic associates of trees in the genera Nothofagus sensu stricto and Lophozonia in southern South America, Australia, and New Zealand. The uniqueness of the fruit bodies and habitat of Cyttaria has led taxonomists to justify its placement in its own order, Cyttariales, in Leotiomycetes. A multilocus phylogenetic reconstruction of the class Leotiomycetes incorporating new sequence data from Cyttaria nigra shows Cyttariaceae to have an isolated position near the base of Helotiales, with weak support for a relationship with Polydesmia pruinosa (incertae sedis) and Chlorociboriaceae. Cyttariales is here proposed as a synonym of Helotiales.
Details
- ISSN :
- 18618952 and 1617416X
- Volume :
- 20
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Mycological Progress
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........ff77dfdb4f34aabd3a0aa9dd4ee8e2e7
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11557-021-01736-2