Apiculospora Wijayaw., Camporesi, A.J.L. Phillips & K.D. Hyde, Fungal Diver 77: 42 (2016)
Apiculospora was introduced by Wijayawardene et al. (2016) with A. spartii Wijayaw. et al. as the type species from dead branches of SpartiumjunceumL. Apiculospora belongs to Leotiomycetes, genera incertae sedis (Ekanayaka et al. 2019), while Hyde et al. (2020a, b, c) reassigned Apiculospora to Rhytismatales genera incertae sedis based on phylogenetics. Apiculospora penniseti was later introduced by Karunarathna et al. (2021) from dead leaves of Pennisetum purpureum. Apiculospora presently comprises only two species (www.indexfungorum.org, accessed in April 2024) and have been reported from only three hosts, Spartium junceum (Fabaceae; Italy), Pennisetum purpureum (Poaceae; Taiwan, China) and Yucca gigantea (Asparagaceae; China) (Fig. 1).
Figure 1 – Maximum likelihood tree based on analysis of combined ITS, and LSU sequence data. The tree is rooted with Dactylaria dimorphospora (CBS 256.70). The newly generated sequence is in blue. Bootstrap support values of maximum likelihood and parsimony analysis equal to or greater than 80% are given near the nodes, respectively
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