Corymbiglomus pacificum, a new glomeromycete from a saline lakeshore in Chile

Medina, Jorge; Cornejo, Pablo; Borie, Fernando; Meier, Sebastián; Palenzuela, Javier; Evangelista, Helder; Ferreira, Araeska; Alves da Silva, Gladstone; Sánchez, Iván; Oehl, Fritz

Abstract

A new species of the Glomeromycetes is diagnosed by bright yellow to dark yellow bi-walled spores (85–131 μm diam.) that form terminally on cylindrical subtending hyphae. The yellow outer spore wall is continuous with the hyphal wall, while the germ tubes emerge during germination from the hyaline inner wall to penetrate the outer wall. Phylogenetic analyses place the new fungus, Corymbiglomus pacificum, within the Diversisporales next to C. corymbiforme and C. globiferum. The new species was found in the Araucanía region of southern Chile in the rhizospheric soils of Ammophila arenaria at the mouth of Lake Budi, a saline ecosystem where the lake is periodically directly connected to the Pacific Ocean.

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Título de la Revista: MYCOTAXON
Volumen: 127
Editorial: Mycotaxon Ltd.
Fecha de publicación: 2014
Página de inicio: 173
Página final: 183
Notas: ISI