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New genus of trichomatous coelomycete on Myrcia fenzliana from the Brazilian Cerrado.

Maria do Desterro Mendes Dos SantosDebora Cervieri GuterresGermán F Sepúlveda ChaveraErica Santos do Carmo SouzaRita de Cássia Pereira-CarvalhoDanilo Batista PinhoJosé Carmine Dianese
Published in: Mycologia (2020)
Megacoelomyces (type species: Megacoelomyces sanchezii), an ascomycete asexual morph infecting Myrcia fenzliana (Myrtaceae) from the Brazilian Cerrado, is described as a new genus in the Phaeosphaeriaceae (Pleosporales, Dothideomycetes, Ascomycota), based on multilocus phylogeny (three nuclear ribosomal DNA and two protein-coding genes) in addition to morphological (light and scanning electron microscopy) and ecological data.
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