Premium
Response to neotypification of Paecilomyces hepiali (Hypocreales) (Wang & al., 2015)
Author(s) -
Dai Ru-Qin,
Shen Chong-Yao,
Li Xiao-Ming,
Lan Jiang-Li,
Lin Shu-Fang,
Shao Ai-Juan
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
taxon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 81
eISSN - 1996-8175
pISSN - 0040-0262
DOI - 10.12705/674.7
Subject(s) - holotype , paecilomyces , herbarium , botany , biology , extant taxon , geography , taxonomy (biology) , evolutionary biology
Paecilomyces hepiali is a species of fungus isolated from a field collection of natural Cordyceps sinensis insect–fungi complex from the Baima Snow Mountains, Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan Province. A dried culture of living strain 82–2 was designated as the holotype and deposited in the Herbarium of the Institute of Chinese Materia Medica (HICMM), China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Beijing. In 2015 a neotype was designated for P. hepiali based on the presumption that the holotype was unavailable for study. We show that the holotype is extant and available, and thus the neotypification is overturned.