Conidial fungi associated with leaf litter of red cedar (Cedrela odorata) in Belém, Pará (eastern Brazilian Amazon)

Abstract

The aim of this study was to investigate the species of conidial fungi associated with leaf litter of Cedrela odorata (Meliaceae), an endangered red cedar species typical of Amazonian terra-firme forests. Conidial fungi were sampled around C. odorata individuals in three forest areas in the municipality of Belém (Pará State, Brazil). A total of 104 species were identified, with 53 new records for the state of Pará, 46 first records for the Brazilian Amazon, including new records for Brazil (Cordana abramovii), for South America (Acarocybiopsis cubitaensis, Xylocladium claviforme) and for the Americas (Dactylaria biguttulata). A review of species of conidial fungi reported on C. odorata is provided, indicating its distribution in Brazil. For each new record in Brazil, South America and the Americas we present a description, illustrations, geographical distribution and taxonomic comments.

Phylogenetic Reassessment, Taxonomy, and Biogeography of Codinaea and Similar Fungi

“…Recently, several new species were described from China and Thailand e.g., [28][29][30]. Other, mostly single records, originate from different parts of the world e.g., [31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38].…”

“…The fungi that remain classified in Codinaea and Dictyochaeta are dematiaceous phialidic hyphomycetes that, based on literature and herbarium records, are globally distributed in major centers of diversity in Australasia, Holarctic realm, and the tropics, and thrive on decaying plant material such as bark, wood, wooden fruits, bamboo culms, palm fronds, fallen leaves and petioles in freshwater and terrestrial environments e.g., [2,5,6,[20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38]52]. They also occur as endophytes in living plants e.g., [53], or plant pathogens [54][55][56].…”

Lauriomyces acerosus: a new record for the Americas

“…In Brazil, this species was reported in the state of São Paulo by Piccolo & Silva (1996) in leaves of Alchornea triplinervia litter and later in Bahia (Gusmão & Maia, 2006), Piauí (Silva, Santa Izabel & Gusmão, 2014), Ceará (Santa Izabel & Gusmão, 2018) and Amapá (Monteiro, Sarmento & Sotão, 2019). Lauriomyces sakaeratensis described by Somrithipol , Kosol & Jones (2006) on fallen leaves of Dipterocarpus costatus in Thailand was first reported in Brazil (state of Bahia) on leaves and petioles submerged by Barbosa & Gusmão (2011), and on Cedrela odorata litter (state of Pará) (Santos, Sotão, Monteiro , Gusmão & Gutiérrez, 2018).…”

Contribuições para o Conhecimento de Fungos (Ascomycota) em Mauritia flexuosa L.f. e Acrocomia intumescens Drude, Brasil (Contributions to the knowledge of fungi (Ascomycota) in Mauritia flexuosa L.f. and Acrocomia intumescens Drude, Brazil)

“…Os fungos constituem uma comunidade importante da diversidade biológica, essencial para a conservação de outros organismos e indispensáveis para a manutenção dos ecossistemas. Os microfungos participam do processo de decomposição de diversos substratos, em especial os de origem vegetal (Fiuza et al, 2014;Silva et al, 2014;Santa Izabel e Gusmão, 2018;Sunayana et al, 2014;Santos et al, 2018).…”