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Guayaquilia gen. nov., typified by Idriella cubensis
Author(s) -
Freddy Magdama,
Daynet Sosa,
Fernando Espinoza,
Lizette Serrano,
Simón Pérez-Martínez,
Elaine Malosso,
Margarita HernándezRestrepo,
Rafael F. Castañeda-Ruíz
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
mycotaxon
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.366
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 2154-8889
pISSN - 0093-4666
DOI - 10.5248/135.501
Subject(s) - incertae sedis , biology , monophyly , botany , taxonomy (biology) , genus , phylogenetic tree , conidium , lineage (genetic) , phylogenetics , zoology , clade , biochemistry , gene
A new genus Guayaquilia is established to accommodate Idriella cubensis based on morphology and phylogenetic analysis. DNA sequence data place these specimens as incertae sedis separate from Microdochiaceae ( Xylariales ), forming a monophyletic lineage separated from Neoidriella desertorum and phylogenetically distant from Idriella . The novel genus is characterized by macronematous, tree-like, fasciculate, profuse dichotomously, alternately, or irregularly branched, brown conidiophores with polyblastic, denticulate, sympodial extended, intercalary and terminal conidiogenous cells that produce solitary, sublunate, subnavicular, lunate, inequilateral, (0–)1-septate, hyaline conidia.

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