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MYCOTAXON
Volume 104, pp. 287–296 April–June 2008
Pyrenomycetes of the Russian Far East 3.
Three new Daldinia species (Xylariaceae)

1vasilyeva@ibss.dvo.ru
Institute of Biology and Soil Science
Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Vladivostok 690022, Russia
2marc.stadler@t-online.de
University of Bayreuth, Faculty of Biology, Chemistry and Earth Sciences
Dept. Mycology, D-95440 Bayreuth, Germany
3InterMed Discovery GmbH, Otto-Hahn-Strasse 15, D-44227 Dortmund, Germany
AbstractDaldinia barkaloviiD. govorovaeD. carpinicola


Key wordsAscomycotaSordariomycetes
Introduction
DaldiniaXylariaceae
   
            
          Daldinia  
   

    D. concentrica         

        
D. concentrica  
  
        
          D. bakeri 
D. occidentalis   D. vernicosa      
D. concentrica

Daldinia bakeri
D. concentrica
Fraxinus       D. concentrica
D. childiae 
D. occidentalisD. loculata
           

      

   D. vernicosa         
D. fissa  
        

Daldinia





          
   D. concentrica D. eschscholzii  
D. gelatinoides D. obovataD. fissa
D. occidentalis     D. eschscholzii   
D. gelatinoides
Entonaema
Daldinia singularis 

Carpinus cordata
Material and methods

          
     



         

Daldinia... 
Daldinia childiaeDaldinia fissaDaldinia carpinicola


Taxonomic description
Daldinia carpinicola sp. nov. 

Stromata clavata, substipitata, solitaria, 0.8-1.3 cm diametro, ad 2 cm alto, externe
levigata, atro-testacea vel atro-purpurina, pigmenti pallide-purpurino-grisei (115) in KOH
dissoluti. Perithecia tubulosa, 0.9-1.1 mm alta, 0.2-0.3 mm crassa, textura sub peritheciis
zonis atro-brunneis et pallide-brunneis alternantibus composita. Asci p. sp. 80-90 x 8-10
μm, stipitibus 100 μm longitudine, annulo apicali discoideo, in liquoure iodato Melzeri
cyanescente. Ascosporae ellipsoideo-inequilaterales, brunneae vel atro-brunneae, (13)14-
16.5 x (6.5)7-8(10) μm, rima germinativa recta et longa in latere convexo praeditae;
perisporium in 10% KOH dehiscens.
HolotypeCarpinus cordata


 

         

   

    


         
Carpinus cordata
         

Daldinia carpinicolaCarpinus
Daldinia singularis 



Daldinia  
       D. decipiens
       
Daldinia   
D. petriniae 
D. occidentalisD. decipiens


Daldinia... 
Daldinia barkalovii sp. nov. 

Stromata irregulariter pulvinata, sessilia vel leviter constricta in modem basi crassati, 1.5-
5 cm diametro, ad 1-1.5 cm alto, externe rugosa, atra, striis flexuosis et coffei-coloratis vel
ochraceis tecta, pigmenti pallide-purpureo-grisei in KOH dissoluti. Perithecia tubulosa,
ca. 0.6-0.8 mm alta, 0.2-0.3 mm crassa, textura sub peritheciis zonis atro-brunneis et
pallide-brunneis alternantibus composita. Asci p. sp. 78-92 x 8-10 μm, stipitibus ad 140 μm
longitudine, annulo apicali discoideo, in liquoure iodato Melzeri cyanescente. Ascosporae
ellipsoideo-inequilaterales, brunneae, 12-14(15) x 6-7(7.5) μm, rima germinativa recta et
longa in latere convexo praeditae; perisporium in 10% KOH dehiscens.
HolotypeAlnus

  

       
   
          
         
Daldinia barkalovii
Daldinia govorovae


           
  

       
      


         

     
          
            
    Sporothrix    
Nodulisporium
      

        
        Conidia  
      
          HPLC profiles:
  D. barkalovii    


Daldinia barkaloviiDaldinialloydii 


  
D. lloydii
         
D. petriniae
 Alnus incana          
          
D. barkalovii 

Daldinia govorovaesp. nov. 

Stromata globosa vel depresso-globosa, sessilia, solitaria, circa 4.5 cm diametro, externe
scabra, fusca, pigmenti inter umbrini et castanei vel sepiacei in KOH dissoluti. Perithecia
tubulosa, 0.8-1.2 mm alta, circa 0.3-0.5 mm crassa, textura sub peritheciis zonae angustae
et atrae zonis latis et albidis vel flavescentis alterantia, zonae latae fibrillis angustis in strato
Daldinia... 
vellaris compositae (‘fissa’-type). Asci conglutinati, reactio in liquore iodato Melzeri nullo.
Ascosporae ellipsoideo-inequilaterales, apices anguste-rotundae, brunneae, (15)16-18(20)
x 10-12 μm, rima germinativa recta et longa in latere convexo praeditae; perisporium in
10% KOH dehiscens.
Holotype



    
     
         
        

Daldinia
Daldiniagovorovae.SporothrixNodulisporium
SporothrixDaldinia barkalovii
        Sporothrix  
 


          
      





        
         
SporothrixNodulisporium 

      

        
 
      
       

 D. govorovae
  
       Daldinia   
         
D. petriniae

   
D. childiae    



          
Daldiniamacrospora            
D. govorovae D. macrospora
          Daldinia
gelatinosa     
         

D. govorovae 
D. petriniae 
            
Daldinia... 
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

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    
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 
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   
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   Xylariaceae        


Daldinia
Hypoxylon
Daldinia
Daldinia singularis 

      

 



         
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

  

         Hypoxylon 
Xylariaceae, Sphaeriales

Daldinia concentrica

Daldiniadecipiens
Daldinia
   Daldini  



Hypoxylon fragiforme
   
       Daldinia   

  
          
Daldinia
           

            


          
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         


           

   Daldinia 
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... Pleomorphism occurs in the anamorphs of the genus, as evidenced by the occurrence of both holoblastic and enteroblastic conidiogenesis within single strains of the anamorphs of the species D. decipiens, D. palmensis, and D. petriniae (Ju et al. 1997;Stadler et al. 2001Stadler et al. , 2004. The presence of other related species with anamorphs exhibiting strictly enteroblastic conidiogenesis (D. singularis, D. barkalovii, D. govorovae) (Ju et al. 1999, Vasilyeva & Stadler 2008) and strictly holoblastic conidiogenesis (D. concentrica, D. eschscholzii etc.) (Ju et al. 1999), in addition to the D. loculata / A. nemorosum lineage with strains exhibiting either holoblastic or enteroblastic conidiogenesis, provides a phylogenetic framework that could be useful in future comparative genetic studies on the mechanisms controlling conidiogenesis and the evolution of conidiogenesis types within the Daldinia lineage. ...
... Many pyrenomycetes have been collected exclusively in the Sea of Japan area and assigned to new species or genera (Vasilyeva 1990(Vasilyeva , 1993(Vasilyeva , 2001(Vasilyeva , 2007(Vasilyeva , 2010Ju et al. 1999Ju et al. , 2009Stadler et al. 2005;Vasilyeva & Mel'nik 2006;Vasilyeva & Stadler 2008;Vasilyeva et al. 2007Vasilyeva et al. , 2010Hirooka et al. 2011). The main purpose of the Vasilyeva & Stephenson (2010b series (for which this is the third contribution) is to emphasize that by neglecting biogeographical patterns, mycologists often have reached the wrong conclusions regarding application of species names to fungi in northeastern Asia. ...
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