Turbo-taxonomy to assemble a megadiverse lichen genus:seventy new species of Cora(Basidiomycota:Agaricales:Hygrophoraceae),honouring David Leslie Hawksworth’s seventieth birthday

Following a large-scale phylogenetic study of the lichenized genus Cora(Basidiomycota:Agaricales:Hygrophoraceae),we formally describe 70 new species,honouring the seventieth birthday of David Leslie Hawksworth,one of the preeminent figures in mycology and lichenology in the past 50 years.Based on an updated phylogeny using the ITS fungal barcoding locus,we now recognize 189 taxa in a genus that until recently was considered to represent a single species;including this contribution,92 of these are formally recognized,including five taxa based on historical names or collections that have not been sequenced.Species of Cora can be recognized by a combination of morphological(size,colour,lobe configuration,surface hairs,hymenophore size and shape),anatomical(thallus thickness,cortex structure,photobiont type,hyphal papillae),and ecogeographical features(substrate,habitat,distribution),and a keytable allowing the identification of all accepted taxa is provided.The new species are:Cora accipiter Moncada,Madrin˜a´n&Lücking spec.nov.,C.applanata Moncada,Soto-Medina&Lücking spec.nov.,C.arachnodavidea Moncada,Dal Forno&Lücking spec.nov.,C.arborescens Dal Forno,Chaves&Lücking spec.nov.,C.arcabucana Moncada,C.Rodrı´guez&Lücking spec.nov.,C.aturucoa Lücking,Moncada&C.Vargas spec.nov.,C.auriculeslia Moncada,Ya´nez-Ayabaca&Lücking spec.nov.,C.barbifera Moncada,Patin˜o&Lücking spec.nov.,C.boleslia Lücking,E.Morales&Dal Forno spec.nov.,C.caliginosa Holgado,Rivas Plata&Perlmutter spec.nov.,C.campestris Dal Forno,Eliasaro&Spielmann spec.nov.,C.canari Nugra,Dal Forno&Lücking spec.nov.,C.caraana Lücking,Martins&Lucheta spec.nov.,C.casasolana Moncada,R.-E.Pe´rez&Lücking spec.nov.,C.caucensis Moncada,M.Gut.&Lücking spec.nov.,C.celestinoa Moncada,CabreraAmaya&Lücking spec.nov.,C.comaltepeca Moncada,R.-E.Pe´rez&Herrera-Camp.spec.nov.,C.corani Lücking,E.Morales&Dal Forno spec.nov.,C.corelleslia Moncada,A.Sua´rez-Corredor&Lücking spec.nov.,C.crispoleslia Moncada,J.Molina&Lücking spec.nov.,C.cuzcoensis Holgado,Rivas Plata&Perlmutter spec.nov.,C.dalehana Moncada,Madrin˜a´n&Lücking spec.nov.,C.davibogotana Lücking,Moncada&Coca spec.nov.,C.davicrinita Moncada,Madrin˜a´n&Lücking spec.nov.,C.davidia Moncada,L.Vargas&Lücking spec.nov.,C.dewisanti Moncada,A.Sua´rez-Corredor&Lücking spec.nov.,C.dulcis Moncada,R.-E.Pe´rez&Lücking spec.nov.,C.elephas Lücking,Moncada&L.Vargas spec.nov.,C.fuscodavidiana Lücking,Moncada&L.Vargas spec.nov.,C.garagoa Simijaca,Moncada&Lücking spec.nov.,C.gigantea Lücking,Moncada&Coca spec.nov.,C.gomeziana Dal Forno,Chaves&Lücking spec.nov.,C.guajalitensis Lücking,Robayo&Dal Forno spec.nov.,C.hafecesweorthensis Moncada,Lücking&R.Pela´ez spec.nov.,C.haledana Dal Forno,Chaves&Lücking spec.nov.,C.hawksworthiana Dal Forno,P.Nelson&Lücking spec.nov.,C.hochesuordensis Lücking,E.Morales&Dal Forno spec.nov.,C.hymenocarpa Lücking,Chaves&Lawrey spec.nov.,C.imi Lücking,Chaves&Lawrey spec.nov.,C.itabaiana Dal Forno,Aptroot&M.Ca´ceres spec.nov.,C.leslactuca nov.,C.maxima Wilk,Dal Forno&Lücking spec.nov.,C.minutula Lücking,Moncada&Ya´nez-Ayabaca spec.nov.,C.palaeotropica Weerakoon,Aptroot&Lücking spec.nov.,C.palustris Dal Forno,Chaves&Lücking spec.nov.,C.parabovei Dal Forno,Kukwa&Lücking spec.nov.,C.paraciferrii Lücking,Moncada&J.E.Hern.spec.nov.,C.paraminor Dal Forno,Chaves&Lücking spec.nov.,C.pastorum Moncada,Patin˜o&Lücking spec.nov.,C.pichinchensis Paredes,Jonitz&Dal Forno spec.nov.,C.pikynasa J.-M.Torres,Moncada&Lücking spec.nov.,C.pseudobovei Wilk,Dal Forno&Lücking spec.nov.,C.pseudocorani Lücking,E.Morales&Dal Forno spec.nov.,C.putumayensis L.J.Arias,Moncada&Lücking spec.nov.,C.quillacinga Moncada,F.Ortega&Lücking spec.nov.,C.rothesiorum Moncada,Madrin˜a´n&Lücking spec.nov.,C.rubrosanguinea Nugra,Moncada&Lücking spec.nov.,C.santacruzensis Dal Forno,Bungartz&Ya´nezAyabaca,spec.nov.,C.schizophylloides Moncada,C.Rodrı´guez&Lücking spec.nov.,C.smaragdina Lücking,Rivas Plata&Chaves spec.nov.,C.soredavidia Dal Forno,Marcelli&Lücking spec.nov.,C.subdavicrinita Moncada,J.Molina&Lücking spec.nov.,C.suturifera Nugra,Besal&Lücking spec.nov.,C.terrestris Dal Forno,Chaves&Lücking spec.nov.,C.terricoleslia Wilk,Dal Forno&Lücking spec.nov.,C.udebeceana Moncada,R.Pela´ez&Lücking,Moncada&R.Pela´ez spec.Lücking spec.nov.,C.urceolata Moncada,Coca&Lücking spec.nov.,C.verjonensis Lücking,Moncada&Dal Forno spec.nov.,C.viliewoa Lücking,Chaves&Soto-Medina spec.nov.,and C.yukiboa Mercado-Dı´az,Moncada&Lücking spec.nov.Furthermore,the taxonomic status of the recently described or recognized species C.arachnoidea,C.aspera,C.ciferrii,and C.reticulifera,is revised.

Molecular data place the hyphomycetous lichenicolous genus Sclerococcum close to Dactylospora (Eurotiomycetes) and S. parmeliae in Cladophialophora (Chaetothyriales)

The lichenicolous anamorphic fungus Sclerococcum parmeliae was isolated in pure culture,and ITS,nuLSU and mtSSU sequences were obtained from these isolates.For comparison,sequences from S.sphaerale,the generic type,were obtained directly from freshly collected specimens.Phylogenetic analyses place S.sphaerale with species of Dactylospora and an unidentified lichen-inhabiting isolate in a strongly supported clade that is sister to a lineage comprising members of the Chaetothyriales and Pyrenulales.In contrast,S.parmeliae is inferred as a member of the Herpotrichiellaceae(Chaetothyriales)and belongs to a robustly supported clade that also includes species of Cladophialophora,Capronia semiimmersa,and Phialophora verrucosa.Within the Herpotrichiellaceae,S.parmeliae most closely resembles members of the anamorph genus Cladophialophora.Accordingly,we propose the transfer of S.parmeliae and the morphologically similar species S.cladoniae,S.hawksworthii and S.normandinae to Cladophialophora.A new lichenicolous species,Clad.megalosporae,collected twice on Megalospora in Florida and Papua New Guinea,is also described.

Briancoppinsia,a new coelomycetous genus of Arthoniaceae(Arthoniales)for the lichenicolous Phoma cytospora,with a key to this and similar taxa

Morphological,anatomical,chemical and molecular data suggest that a relatively common lichenicolous coelomycete on Lecanora conizaeoides is conspecific with Phoma cytospora,previously known only from parmelioid lichens,and that further populations on Cladonia and Pertusaria belong to the same species.This species is distinguished from Phoma by several taxonomically important characters and obviously represents a previously unrecognized genus,for which the name Briancoppinsia is introduced.Phylogenetic analyses using nuLSU and mtSSU sequences of isolates obtained in pure culture suggest that the new genus belongs to the Arthoniaceae(Arthoniales).This is the first obligate lichenicolous,non-lichenized anamorph confirmed to belong to the Arthoniales based on molecular data.

Phylogenetic placement of lichenicolous Phoma species in the Phaeosphaeriaceae(Pleosporales,Dothideomycetes)

More than twenty species of lichenicolous fungi have been described in Phoma,a large anamorphic genus of primarily plant-associated pathogens with broad geographic distributions.We obtained nuclear and mitochondrial rDNA sequences from 19 fungal cultures isolated from specimens representing four described and two undescribed lichenicolous species in the genus.Our multilocus phylogeny indicates that lichenicolous Phoma species represent at least two phylogenetically distinct clades in the Phaeosphaeriaceae,one including a new species,Phoma puncteliae,isolated from a specimen of Punctelia rudecta collected inMaryland,USA,and another group of primarily lichenicolous species.This latter group includes four described lichenicolous Phoma species,an unidentified melanized rock fungus,and a new lichenicolous Phoma species isolated from Xanthomendoza species collected in Canada that we are naming P.xanthomendozae.Some specimens in this clade collected from different lichen genera and species were found to be very similar genetically,which calls into question the recent practice of recognizing lichenicolous Phoma species mainly by differences in host preference.