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Bipolaris drechsleri Manamgoda & Minnis, sp. nov.
Etymology. Named in honour of Charles Drechsler (1892–1986), a
USDA scientist who worked on this group of fungi.
Leaf spots irregular, small, distinct, purplish, with dark margin,
surrounded by a chlorotic halo. Conidiophores macronematous, arising singly or in groups of two to three, straight to lexuous, cylindrical, geniculate in upper part, simple or with one
dichotomous branch, pale brown, septate, smooth-walled,
(74–)95–300(–602) × 4–6 μm (x̄ = 250, SD = 152, n = 35;
x̄ = 5, SD = 1, n = 35). Conidiogenous cells integrated, intercalary, with sympodial proliferation, monotretic or polytretic,
dark brown, with circular scars. Conidia solitary, curved or
straight, ellipsoidal, obclavate, obclavate-ellipsoidal, rostrate,
rarely obovoid, apex and base obtuse, smooth-walled, pale to
dark golden-brown, sometimes paler in end cells, (39–)50–
80(–102) × (10–)13–19(–20) μm (x̄ = 66, SD = 14, n = 125;
x̄ = 16, SD = 3, n = 125), 3–10-distoseptate (x̄ = 7), septa accentuated; hilum inconspicuous or slightly protuberant, dark
brown to black; germinating with a germ tube at each end of
conidia.
Culture characteristics — Colonies (35–)45–60(–70) mm
diam on PDA (Difco) after 5 d at 25 °C in dark, white when
young, becoming whitish grey at maturity; margin irregular,
effuse, velvety, concolorous; stromata not formed in culture.
Reverse black, with white margin.
Habitat — On living leaves of Microstegium vimineum and
other grasses as in Kleczewski et al. (2012).
Distribution — USA (Indiana, Maryland, West Virginia).
Typus. USA, Indiana, Big Oaks Wildlife Refuge, on living leaves of Microstegium vimineum, 2010, N. Kleczewski (holotype BPI 892682; ex-type culture AR4841 = CBS 136207, MycoBank MB 805272).
Additional material examined. USA, West Virginia, Arnoldsburg, on living
leaves of Microstegium vimineum, N. Kleczewski, BPI 892683; culture Ml036
= CBS 136208; Maryland, Montgomery Co., Wheaton, Brookside Garden,
on an unidentified ornamental grass, Oct. 1995, N. O’Neil N395, BPI 892684;
culture FIP 373= CBS 136245.
the RAxML BlackBox v. 7.6.3 in CIPRES Science Gateway
platform (Miller et al. 2010). Parsimony trees were inferred
by PAUP v. 4.0b10 (Swofford 2003) using a heuristic search
option with 1 000 random sequence additions. The alignment
and tree were uploaded to TreeBASE (ID 14626).
Notes — The host Microstegium vimineum, common name
Japanese stilt grass, is an annual grass in the Poaceae,
subfamily Panicoideae, tribe Andropogoneae. Currently, M. vimineum is one of a number of serious non-native invasive species in the eastern United States (Flory et al. 2011). The fungal genus Bipolaris includes a number of grass pathogens
(Manamgoda et al. 2011). Recently a new species occurring
on Microstegium vinimeum was described as B. microstegii
(Crous et al. 2012a). Bipolaris drechsleri has conidial dimensions similar to B. microstegii, but B. drechsleri has shorter
conidiophores and conidiophores with more proliferations
than B. microstegii. Overlapping conidial dimensions between
species is common in the genus Bipolaris (Sivanesan 1987)
and a phylogenetic species recognition criterion is essential
for defining species in this genus (Manamgoda et al. 2011).
Comparing ITS and GPDH with the available data in GenBank revealed that the fungus belongs in Bipolaris sensu
Manamgoda et al. (2012). Bipolaris microstegii is phylogenetically close to B. victoriae and B. zeicola, but the latter
two species do not show a close phylogenetic relationship with
B. drechsleri, which clusters with B. melinidis.
Phylogram generated from maximum parsimony analysis
based on combined ITS and GPDH gene sequences. Parsimony bootstrap values/RAxML rapid bootstrapping estimations ≥ 60 % are shown above the branches. GenBank numbers of included sequences for each species are given as ITS/
GPDH.
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B. victoriae AF071331/ AF081386
B. zeicola AF071326/ AF081382
100/100
Phylogenetic analysis — A concatenated alignment of both
ITS and GPDH loci was made using the sequence data of
B. drechsleri and Bipolaris sequences obtained from GenBank. A maximum likelihood search was performed using
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Colour illustrations. Collection site in West Virginia; Bipolaris drechsleri
(AR 4841). Symptom development on Microstegium vimineum; culture on
PDA; conidiophores and conidia (scale bar = 50 μm, all others = 10 µm);
conidiophores; conidia.
NS/92
76/92
B.chloridis JN192372/ JN600961
B. maydis AF071325/ AF081380
100/100
10
B. microstegii JX089579/ JX089575
B. zeae AF081452/ AF081407
B. luttrellii AF071350/ AF081402
B. eleusines AF081451/ AF081405
B. sorokiniana AF071329/ AF081385
100/100 B. peregianensis AF071328/ AF081384
60/92
B. peregianensis JN601034/ JN600977
B. microlaenae JN601032/ JN600974
100/100 B. oryzae JX256413/ JX276428
B. oryzae JX256416/ JX276430
AR4841 KF500530/ KF500533
MUS0028 KF500532/ KF500535 B. drechsleri
FIP 373 KF500531/ KF500534
B. melinidis JN601035/ JN600972
B. urochloae AF071334/ AF081389
Curvularia lunata JX256430/ JX276442
100/100
Dimuthu S. Manamgoda, Systematic Mycology & Microbiology Laboratory, USDA-ARS, 10300 Baltimore Ave., Beltsville, MD 20705, USA;
Institute of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand; e-mail: dsmanamgoda@gmail.com
Andrew M. Minnis, Center for Forest Mycology Research, Northern Research Station, USDA-Forest Service,
One Gifford Pinchot Dr., Madison, WI 53726, USA; e-mail: amminnis@fs.fed.us
Nathan M. Kleczewski, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, The University of Delaware,145 Townsend Hall, Newark, DE 19719, USA;
e-mail: nkleczew@udel.edu
S. Luke Flory, Agronomy Department, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA; e-mail: lory@ul.edu
Lisa A. Castlebury, Systematic Mycology & Microbiology Laboratory, USDA-ARS, 10300 Baltimore Ave., Beltsville, MD 20705, USA;
e-mail: Lisa.Castlebury@ars.usda.gov
Keith Clay, Department of Biology, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, USA; e-mail: clay@indiana.edu
Kevin D. Hyde, Institute of Excellence in Fungal Research and School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand;
e-mail: kdhyde3@gmail.com
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