Paraloratospora edkuensis sp. nov. (Ascomycota, Phaeosphaeriaceae) from the brackish Lake Edku, Egypt

Mahmoud S. Bakhit; Mohamed A. Abdel-Wahab

doi:10.1515/bot-2024-0084

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Paraloratospora edkuensis sp. nov. (Ascomycota, Phaeosphaeriaceae) from the brackish Lake Edku, Egypt

Mahmoud S. Bakhit

Mahmoud S. Bakhit is assistant professor of mycology at Sohag University, Egypt. His research interests are focused on biodiversity, systematics, ecology and physiology of fungi.
and Mohamed A. Abdel-Wahab

Mohamed A. Abdel-Wahab is professor of marine mycology at Sohag University, Egypt. His research interests are focused on the biodiversity, systematics and ecology of marine fungi, natural products from fungi and ecology and physiology of thraustochytrids. He has published 82 research articles, with a H-index of 32.

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Abstract

In this study, we introduce a novel saprobic taxon Paraloratospora edkuensis, from a decaying stem of Phragmites australis collected at Lake Edku, El-Behera Governorate, Egypt. Multi-locus analyses of the combined ITS (internal transcribed spacers of rDNA), LSU (nuclear large subunit rDNA) and tef1-α (translation elongation factor) sequence data placed the new taxon within Paraloratospora as a phylogenetically distinct species in a clade containing two aquatic species P. fructigena and P. marina. The new species is characterized by having globose to subglobose, dark brown to black ascomata with a short neck, 4–8-spored, cylindrical to obclavate asci, and 3-septate, hyaline and fusiform ascospores. Paraloratospora edkuensis differs from P. fructigena and P. marina by having smaller ascomata with a single neck, asci with four or eight ascospores, different mycelial colony morphology, and nucleotide differences of 2.1–3 %, 0.6–1.4 %, and 1.3–6.9 % in the ITS, LSU and tef1-α genes, respectively.

Keywords: Dothideomycetes; molecular phylogeny; Phragmites australis ; Pleosporales; sexual fungi

Corresponding author: Mahmoud S. Bakhit, Department of Botany and Microbiology, Faculty of Science, Sohag University, Sohag 82524, Egypt, E-mail: mahmoudsaad@science.sohag.edu.eg

Funding source: Sohag University

About the authors

Mahmoud S. Bakhit

Mahmoud S. Bakhit is assistant professor of mycology at Sohag University, Egypt. His research interests are focused on biodiversity, systematics, ecology and physiology of fungi.

Mohamed A. Abdel-Wahab

Mohamed A. Abdel-Wahab is professor of marine mycology at Sohag University, Egypt. His research interests are focused on the biodiversity, systematics and ecology of marine fungi, natural products from fungi and ecology and physiology of thraustochytrids. He has published 82 research articles, with a H-index of 32.

Acknowledgments

The authors thank Mahmoud D. Abd-Elkahar for his help in collecting samples.

Research ethics: Not applicable.
Informed consent: Not applicable.
Author contributions: Conceptualization: Mahmoud S. Bakhit (MSB), Mohamed A. Abdel-Wahab (MAA). Methodology, data collection and analysis: MSB, MAA. Writing – original draft preparation: MSB. Writing – review and editing: MSB, MAA. All authors read and approved the submitted version of the manuscript.
Use of Large Language Models, AI and Machine Learning Tools: None declared.
Competing interests: The authors state no conflict of interest.
Research funding: Sohag University is thanked for financial support.
Data availability: Not applicable.

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Received: 2024-10-08

Accepted: 2025-01-17

Published Online: 2025-02-05

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