Anamorphic fungi of The Raso da Catarina Ecoregion: Aplosporella (Botryosphaeriales) and Stillbella (Hypocreales) new records for Brazil. In: Agrotrópica v. 31 n. 2 p. 103-108, 2019.

Abstract

Anamorphic fungi colonize diverse hosts, produce asexual reproductive structures, and play important roles in decomposition. Aplosporella and Stilbella are anamorphic taxa within the phylum Ascomycota and belong to the families Aplosporellaceae and incertae sedis respectively. The present work presents a taxonomic study of the Ascomycota that colonize Solanum mauritianum Scop. (“cassatinga” or woolly nightshade). S. mauritianum branches were collected in August/2018 in Povoado Juá, in the county Paulo Afonso, in the state of Bahia, Brazil, to morphologically characterize their associated fungi. The samples were processed at MICOLAB UNEB-VIII (Mycology Laboratory: Didactic Collection, Fungal Herbarium and Fungal Culture Collection); slides were prepared using lactophenol, Melzer’s reagent, and water. Aplosporella sp. and Stilbella fimetaria (Pers.) Lindau. were identified. Those two taxa are recorded here for the first time in Brazil, and on a novel botanical host. Morphological analyses, geographic distributions, commentaries, and illustrations are presented for two species identified.