Basionym.

Taxon classification

Fungi

Pleosporales

Dictyosporiaceae

Yang

Jing

Liu

Jian-Kui

Hyde

Kevin D.

Jones

E.B. Gareth

Liu

Zuo-Yi

New species in

Dictyosporium

, new combinations in

Dictyocheirospora

and an updated backbone tree for

Dictyosporiaceae

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10.3897/mycokeys.36.27051

Dictyocheirospora

tetraploides

(L. Cai & K.D. Hyde) J. Yang & K.D. Hyde

comb. nov.

Basionym.

Dictyosporium tetraploides L. Cai & K.D. Hyde, Sydowia 55 (2): 132 (2003)

Holotype.

CHINA. Yunnan, Xishuangbanna, Menglun, a small stream, on submerged wood, 21 June 2002, L. Cai (HKUM 17146).

Notes.

Dictyocheirospora tetraploides is morphologically similar to Di. musae in conidial shape, size, colour and appendages. However, conidia of Di. tetraploides have 5-rowed cells, while those of Di. musae are 7-rowed cells (Photita et al. 2002, Cai et al. 2003).

Photita

Lumyong

McKenzie

EHC

Hyde

Lumyong

(2002) A new

Dictyosporium

species from

Musa

acuminata

in Thailand. Mycotaxon 82: 415–419.

Cai

Zhang

McKenzie

EHC

Hyde

(2003) New species of

Dictyosporium

and

Digitodesmium

from submerged wood in Yunnan, China. Sydowia 55: 129–135.