Camarosporidiella robiniicola (Wijayaw. et al.) Wijayaw., Wanas. & K.D. Hyde, in Wijayawardene, Bhat, Hyde, Camporesi, Wikee, Ariyawansa, Chethana, Tangthirasunun, Chukeatirote & Wang, Phytotaxa 183(1): 21 (2014)
Index Fungorum number: IF 821959; MycoBank number: MB 821959; Facesoffungi number: FoF 03547.
Basionym: Camarosporium robiniicola Wijayaw. et al., Phytotaxa 183: 21. 2014.
Synonym: Camarosporium aureum Norphanphoun et al., Fungal Diversity 72: 153. 2015.
Illustrations: See Wijayawardane et al. (2014a) and Liu et al. (2015).
Additional material examined – Russia, Rostov Region, Krasnosulinsky District, Donskoye forestry, artificial forest, 47,8621251° N, 40,2313757° E, on dead twigs of Gleditsia triacanthos (Fabaceae), 21 May 2013, T.S. Bulgakov T-042, MFLU 17-0468, living culture MFLUCC 14-0906 = CBS 143130; Rostov Region, Rostov-on-Don city, Botanical garden of Southern Federal University, Higher Park, 47, 2352837° N, 39, 6490788° E, on dead twigs of Gleditsia triacanthos, 14 May 2013, T.S. Bulgakov T-010, MFLU 17-0456, living culture MFLUCC 14-0892 = CBS 143128; Rostov region, Shakhty city, Atyukhta river valley, railroad artificial forest, 47,7113209° N, 40,1831603° E, on Robinia neomexicana (Fabaceae), 14 Mar. 2014, T.S. Bulgakov T-012, MFLU 17-0458, living culture MFLUCC 14-0894 = CBS 143129; Rostov-on-Don city, Botanical garden of Southern Federal University, Higher Park, 47,2389405° N, 39,6484137° E, on Robinia pseudoacacia (Fabaceae), 8 May 2014, T.S. Bulgakov T-053, MFLU 17-0471, living culture MFLUCC 14-0909 = CBS 143131; Shakhty city, 20th anniversary of Red Army microdistrict, Solyonaya Balka, 47,7104113° N, 340,2627254° E, on Robinia pseudoacacia, 21 May 2015, T.S. Bulgakov T-403, MFLU 15-2104, living culture MFLUCC 17-0688; ibid., on Robinia sp., 21 May 2016, T.S. Bulgakov T-1303, MFLU 16-1597, living culture MFLUCC 17-0688 = CBS 143132; ibid., on Robinia sp., 5 Jun. 2016, T.S. Bulgakov DL004, MFLU 16-2300, living culture MFLUCC 17-0733.
Notes – All strains of Camarosporidiella robiniicola (including the strain of Ca. aureum, MFLUCC 14-0620) cluster together with significant statistical support of 97 % for ML, 88 % for MP and 1.00 for PP (Clade A2, Fig. 1). Morphological comparison reveals identical morphs and our phylogeny strongly supports an association of Ca. aureum with other strains of Ca. robiniicola. Therefore, it would be taxonomically correct to treat them as conspecific. We herein synonymise Camarosporium aureum under Ca. robiniicola. See Liu et al. (2015) for more details on Camarosporium aureum.