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Seven new species of the Botryosphaeriaceae from baobab and other native trees in Western Australia

     Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), Centre of Excellence in Tree Health Biotechnology, Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 0002, South Africa

Paul Barber

     School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Murdoch University, Perth, 6150, Australia

Bernard Slippers

     Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), Centre of Excellence in Tree Health Biotechnology, Department of Genetics, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 0002, South Africa

Giles E. St. J. Hardy
Treena I. Burgess

     School of Biological Sciences and Biotechnology, Murdoch University, Perth, 6150, Australia

In this study seven new species of the Botryosphaeriaceae are described from baobab (Adansonia gibbosa) and surrounding endemic tree species growing in the Kimberley region of northwestern Australia. Members of the Botryosphaeriaceae were predominantly endophytes isolated from apparently healthy sapwood and bark of endemic trees; others were isolated from dying branches. Phylogenetic analyses of ITS and EF1- sequence data revealed seven new species: Dothiorella longicollis, Fusicoccum ramosum, Lasiodiplodia margaritacea, Neoscytalidium novaehollandiae, Pseudofusicoccum adansoniae, P. ardesiacum and P. kimberleyense.

Key words: Adansonia gibbosa, biodiversity, Botryosphaeria, Dothiorella, Fusicoccum, Lasiodiplodia, Neoscytalidium, Pseudofusicoccum, systematics, taxonomy

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