New Report of Three Unrecorded Species in Species Complex in Korea.

Mycobiology

Division of Environmental Science & Ecological Engineering, College of Life Science & Biotechnology, Korea University, Seoul, Korea.

Published: August 2018

The genus (Hypocreaceae, Ascomycota) consists of globally distributed fungi. Among them, , one of the most commonly collected species, had been known as a polyphyletic or aggregate species. However, a total of 19 species were determined from the polyphyletic groups of . Thus, we explored Korean "" specimens that were collected in 2013-2014. These specimens were re-examined based on a recent study with translate elongation factor 1-alpha (EF1α) sequences to reveal cryptic species in Korea. As a result, four different species, , and , were identified. Except , the other three species have not been reported in Korea. In this work, we describe these species and provide figures.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6171446PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/12298093.2018.1497792DOI Listing

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