Abstract
During an expedition to the Raso da Catarina Ecological Station, state of Bahia, Brazil, we collected litter samples from Syagrus coronata (Mart.) Becc. containing fungal stroma. The material was morphologically identified as belonging to Diatrypella heveae Senwanna, Phookamsak & K.D. Hyde (Diatrypaceae, Xylariales); its known geographic distribution was then limited to Thailand. Diatrypella heveae was originally described on Hevea brasiliensis L. and Brahea armata S. Watson in the Chiang Rai Province, Wiang Chiang Rung District, Thailand. We report here the first occurrence of D. heveae in the Neotropics, as well as a new host, S. coronata, a palm tree endemic to the Brazilian semiarid region.
Highlights
Species of the fungal family Diatrypaceae are cosmopolitan, with predominantly saprobe habits, some taxa are endophytic or plant parasites (Acero et al 2004; de Errasti et al 2014)
Hyde (Diatrypaceae, Xylariales); its known geographic distribution was limited to Thailand
Diatrypella heveae was originally described on Hevea brasiliensis L. and Brahea armata S
Summary
Species of the fungal family Diatrypaceae are cosmopolitan, with predominantly saprobe habits, some taxa are endophytic or plant parasites (Acero et al 2004; de Errasti et al 2014). Diatrypaceous ascomycetes are distributed among 20 genera and approximately 1700 currently accepted taxa (Index Fungorum 2020; Wijayawardene et al 2020). & De Not.) De Not. belongs to the family Diatrypaceae, order Xylariales, and class Sordariomycetes (Acero et al 2004; Almeida et al 2016). The genus was introduced by Cesati and De Notaris in 1863, with Diatrypella verruciformis (Ehrh.) Nitschke as the type species, to accommodate stromatic members of Sphaeriales (Rao 1964), it currently comprises 146 records (Index Fungorum 2020). Several species of Diatrypella have been documented in Brazil, including: Diatrypella aspera (Fr.) Nitschke, D. inflata
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