100 Years of Fungal Biodiversity in southern Africa

Editor(s): Pedro W. Crous, Michael J. Wingfield, Bernard Slippers, Isabella H. Rong and Robert A. Samson
Details: 305pp., fully illustrated with colour pictures (A4 format), paperback, 2006

ISBN:978-90-70351-62-5

The year 2005 marked the 100th Anniversary of the National Collection of Fungi (NCF), now part of the Biosystematics Division of the Plant Protection Research Institute, Agricultural Research Council of South Africa. In effect, this was also the 100th Anniversary of mycology in southern Africa. 

When mycologists and plant pathologists mainly from Africa but including a good number of colleagues from other parts of the world were confronted with the impressive history of mycology in southern Africa, is was plainly obvious that something needed to be done to commemorate this proud occasion. It was decided to launch a special issue of the Studies in Mycology dedicated to the anniversary of mycology in South Africa.

The present volume contains 20 papers in which 101 new entities are introduced (including 1 family, 10 genera, 37 species, 1 forma and 52 new combinations). As can be seen in the paper dealing /with species numbers from South Africa, it is estimated that more than 200 000 species of fungi can be found in South Africa (Crous et al. 2006 – this volume), of which a large portion will prove to be unique.

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Preface

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The South African National Collection of Fungi: celebrating a centenary 1905-2005
Isabella H. Rong and Alice P. Baxter. Studies in Mycology55: 1–12. (2006)

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How many species of fungi are there at the tip of Africa?
Pedro W. Crous, Isabella H. Rong, Alan Wood, Seonju Lee, Hugh Glen, Wilhelm Botha, Bernard Slippers, Wilhelm Z. de Beer, Michael J.Wingfield and David L. Hawksworth. Studies in Mycology 55: 13–33. (2006)

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Microthia, Holocryphia and Ursicollum, three new genera on Eucalyptus and Coccoloba for fungi previously known as Cryphonectria
Marieka Gryzenhout, Henrietta Myburg, Charles S. Hodges, Brenda D. Wingfield and Michael J. Wingfield. Studies in Mycology 55: 35–52. (2006)

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Eucalyptus microfungi known from culture. 1. Cladoriella and Fulvoflamma genera nova, with notes on some other poorly known taxa
Pedro W. Crous, Gerard J.M. Verkley and Johannes Z. Groenewald. Studies in Mycology 55: 53–63. (2006)

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Characterisation of Phomopsis spp. associated with die-back of rooibos (Aspalathus linearis) in South Africa
Johan C. Janse van Rensburg, Sandra C. Lamprecht, Johannes Z. Groenewald, Lisa A. Castlebury and Pedro W. Crous. Studies in Mycology 55: 65–74. (2006)

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Multi-gene phylogenies define Ceratocystiopsis and Grosmannia distinct from Ophiostoma
Renate D. Zipfel, Z. Wilhelm de Beer, Karin Jacobs, Brenda D. Wingfield and Michael J. Wingfield. Studies in Mycology 55: 75–97. (2006)

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Phylogenetic reassessment of Mycosphaerella spp. and their anamorphs occurring on Eucalyptus. II.
Pedro W. Crous, Michael J. Wingfield, J. Pedro Mansilla, Acelino C. Alfenas and Johannes Z. Groenewald. Studies in Mycology 55: 99–131. (2006)

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Multi-gene phylogenies and phenotypic characters distinguish two species within the Colletogloeopsis zuluensis complex associated with Eucalyptus stem cankers
Maria-Noel Cortinas, Pedro W. Crous, Brenda D. Wingfield and Michael J. Wingfield. Studies in Mycology 55: 133–146. (2006)

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A multi-gene phylogeny for species of Mycosphaerella occurring on Eucalyptus leaves
Gavin C. Hunter, Brenda D. Wingfield, Pedro W. Crous and Michael J. Wingfield. Studies in Mycology 55: 147–161. (2006)

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Re-evaluating the taxonomic status of Phaeoisariopsis griseola, the causal agent of angular leaf spot of bean
Pedro W. Crous, Merion M. Liebenberg, Uwe Braun and Johannes Z. Groenewald. Studies in Mycology 55: 163–173. (2006)

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Pestalotioid fungi from Restionaceae in the Cape Floral Kingdom
Seonju Lee, Pedro W. Crous and Michael J. Wingfield. Studies in Mycology 55: 175–187. (2006)

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Species of Cercospora associated with grey leaf spot of maize
Pedro W. Crous, Johannes Z. Groenewald, Marizeth Groenewald, Pat Caldwell, Uwe Braun and Thomas C. Harrington. Studies in Mycology 55: 189–197. (2006)

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Multi-gene phylogeny for Ophiostoma spp. reveals two new species from Protea infructescences
Francois Roets, Z. Wilhelm de Beer, Léanne L. Dreyer, Renate Zipfel, Pedro W. Crous and Michael J. Wingfield. Studies in Mycology 55: 199–212. (2006)

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Calonectria species and their Cylindrocladium anamorphs: species with clavate vesicles
Pedro W. Crous, Johannes Z. Groenewald, Jean-Michel Risède, Philippe Simoneau and Kevin D. Hyde. Studies in Mycology 55: 213–226. (2006)

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Neonectria liriodendri sp. nov., the main causal agent of black foot disease of grapevines
Francois Halleen, Hans-Josef Schroers, Johannes Z. Groenewald, Cecília Rego, Helena Oliveira and Pedro W. Crous. Studies in Mycology 55: 227–234. (2006)

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Phylogenetic lineages in the Botryosphaeriaceae
Pedro W. Crous, Bernard Slippers, Michael J. Wingfield, John Rheeder, Walter F.O. Marasas, Alan J.L. Philips, Artur Alves, Treena Burgess, Paul Barber and Johannes Z. Groenewald. Studies in Mycology 55: 235–253. (2006)

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Celoporthe dispersa gen. et sp. nov. from native Myrtales in South Africa
Grace Nakabonge, Marieka Gryzenhout, Jolanda Roux, Brenda D. Wingfield and Michael J. Wingfield. Studies in Mycology 55: 255–267. (2006)

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DNA sequence comparisons of Ophiostoma spp., including Ophiostoma aurorae sp. nov., associated with pine bark beetles in South Africa
Xudong Zhou, Z. Wilhelm de Beer and Michael J. Wingfield. Studies in Mycology 55: 269–277. (2006)

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A disease epidemic on Zizyphus mucronata in the Kruger National Park caused by Coniodictyum chevalieri
Wolfgang Maier, Thembi Khoza, Neil Harmse, Brenda D. Wingfield and Michael J. Wingfield. Studies in Mycology 55: 279–288. (2006)

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Phylogeny of the Quambalariaceae fam. nov., including important Eucalyptus pathogens in South Africa and Australia
Z. Wilhelm de Beer, Dominik Begerow, Robert Bauer, Geoff S. Pegg, Pedro W. Crous and Michael J. Wingfield. Studies in Mycology 55: 289–298. (2006)

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