Fellomyces ogasawarensis sp. nov. and Fellomyces distylii sp. nov., yeasts isolated from a plant in Japan

Abstract

Fellomyces ogasawarensis and Fellomyces distylii, new yeast species isolated from a dead leaf of a plant (Distylium lepidotum Nakai, family Hamamelidaceae) collected in the Ogasawara Islands, isolated islands in the Pacific Ocean about 1000 km south of Japan, are described. The phylogenetic relationship of F. ogasawarensis and F. distylii with other members of the genus Fellomyces was estimated from 185 rRNA gene sequence analysis. The type strain of F. ogasawarensis is strain OK-81 (= JCM 9861) and that of F. distylii is strain OK-83 (= JCM 9862).

Four new species of Kockovaella isolated from plant leaves collected in Vietnam.

“…1). The result showed that five isolates were in a cluster and closely related with Fellomyces chinensis (Prillinger et al, 1997), F. distylii (Hamamoto et al, 1998), F. lichenicola, F. sichuanensis (Prillinger et al, 1997, and Kockovaella schimae.…”