Scytalidium Pesante
Year: 2025
Type: other
Abstract: Scytalidium Pesante Type species. Scytalidium lignicola Pesante. Notes. In this study, the phylogeny of Scytalidium was reconstructed using concatenated ITS and LSU sequences from (i) the ex-type strain of S. lignicola (type species of the genus), (ii) ex-type strains of 24 additional Scytalidium species, and (iii) ex-type strains of phylogenetically related fungi in Leotiomycetes, Sordariomycetes, Dothideomycetes, and Eurotiomycetes, as identified through preliminary phylogenetic analyses. The results showed that Scytalidium is a polyphyletic genus spread across at least four classes in Ascomycota (Fig. 1). We formally propose to restrict Scytalidium sensu stricto to a monophyletic group of 16 species, with the exclusion of all phylogenetically divergent lineages currently classified in Scytalidium.
Authors: Tong, Shuo-Qiu, Yang, Yi-Fan, Li, Peng, Wu, Yong-Jun, Sun, Bing-Da, Zhang, Zhi-Yuan
Language: English
Subfield: Cell Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7090801021
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