Diagnosis.

Taxon classification

Fungi

Hoforsales

Hoforsaceae

Tedersoo

Leho

Magurno

Franco

Alkahtani

Saad

Mikryukov

Vladimir

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Mucoromycota

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Endogonomycetes

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Hoforsa

rebekkae

853571

Tedersoo

sp. nov.

Diagnosis.

Separation from other species of Hoforsa based on the ITS region (ITS2 positions 108–127 ggratcycccgaggtgtgaaac; one mismatch allowed) and LSU (positions 546–565 ctcctggtgctctcacccgt; no mismatch allowed) as indicated in Fig. 4.

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Figure 4.

Diagnostic barcodes for Hoforsarebekkae relative to closely-related taxa in ITS2 and LSU.

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Type.

Soil eDNA sample: TUE128830 (holotype); eDNA sequence EUK1100001 (lectotype); Pinussylvestris forest near Hofors, Sweden (60.49°N, 16.30°E).

Description.

Other sequences: EUK1104560 (type locality); OU004104 (San Francisco, Ecuador, root sample); and KP889387 and KP889486 (both coniferous forest soil in British Columbia, Canada).

Etymology.

Hofors (Swedish) refers to type locality; and Rebekka (Scotch) refers to the first name Rebekka Artz who was the first to collect materials from this genus.

Notes.

Found from three sites across three continents, with ITS sequences differing up to 3.5% and LSU sequences up to 0.5%.