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Letendraea eurotioides

Letendraea eurotioides Sacc., Michelia 2(no. 6): 73 (1880).

           Index Fungorum number: IF 157166; Facesoffungi number: FoF 00045, Fig. 1

Description: see Ariyawansa et al. (2014).

Material considered: see Ariyawansa et al. (2014).

Fig. 1 Letendraea eurotioides (NY0091436, lectotype, modified from Fig. 9 in Ariyawansa et al. 2014). a Semi-immersed to superficial, globose-subglobose ascomata. b–d Asci. e–g Ascospores. Scale bars: b = 50 μm, c–g = 10 μm.

Importance and distribution

Industrial relevance and applications

Letendraea is useful in medical and pharmaceutical industry as it produces polyketides that are used in antibiotics (Xu et al. 2020). Letendraea helminthicola parasitizes the hyphomycete Helminthosporium velutinum and might be an effective biocontrol agent (Krug et al. 2004).

 

Biochemical importance of the genus, chemical diversity or applications

Letendraea produces wide range of chemicals. Huang et al. (2019) reported letenketals A and B, two spirocyclic polyketides from a marine crab-derived Letendraea sp. Xu et al. (2020) also reported polyketides production from a marine-derived Letendraea sp. 5XNZ4-2.

 

There are 18 Letendraea epithets in Index Fungorum (2022), but several species have been transferred to Bellojisia, Calostilbe, Jobellisia, Pseudocosmospora and Xenonectriella. Letendraea comprises 12 species known on wide range of plants such as Cinnamomum sp. (Lauraceae), Cordyline sp. (Asparagaceae), Corylus avellana (Betulaceae), parasitic on Helminthosporium sp. (Massarinaceae), Memora pedunculata (Bignoniaceae), Rubus fruticosus (Rosaceae), Salix fragilis (Salicaceae), Theobroma cacao (Malvaceae) and Viburnum tinus (Adoxaceae). Letendraea is known from Asia (China (Taiwan), India, Thailand), Europe (Poland, Portugal, Sweden, United Kingdom), South America (Brazil) and The United States.

 

References

Ariyawansa HA, Tanaka K, Thambugala KM, Phookamsak R et al. 2014 – A molecular phylogenetic reappraisal of the Didymosphaeriaceae (= Montagnulaceae). Fungal Diversity 68, 69–104.

Huang R, Xu Y, Ye B, Ding W, Wang P, Xu J. 2019 – Letenketals A and B, two novel spirocyclic polyketides from a marine crab-derived Letendraea sp. fungus. Phytochemistry Letters 30, 165–168.

Kodsueb R, Dhanasekaran V, Aptroot A, Lumyong S, McKenzie EHC, Hyde KD, Jeewon R. 2006 –The family Pleosporaceae: intergeneric relationships and phylogenetic perspectives based on sequence analyses of partial 28S rDNA. Mycologia 98, 571–583.

Krug JC, Benny GL, Keller HW. 2004 – 21 - Coprophilous Fungi. In G. M. Mueller, G. F. Bills, & M. S. Foster (Eds.), Biodiversity of Fungi (pp. 467–499). Academic Press.

Schoch CL, Crous PW, Groenewald JZ, Boehm EWA et al. 2009a – A class-wide phylogenetic assessment of Dothideomycetes. Studies in Mycology 64, 1–15.

Xu Y, Huang R, Liu H, Yan T et al. 2019 – New Polyketides from the Marine-Derived Fungus Letendraea Sp. 5XNZ4-2. Marine Drugs 18.

Zhang Y, Crous PW, Schoch CL, Hyde KD. 2012 – Pleosporales. Fungal Diversity 52, 1–225.

Zhang Y, Fournier J, Crous PW, Pointing SB, Hyde KD. 2009 – Phylogenetic and morphological assessment of two new species of Amniculicola and their allies (Pleosporales). Persoonia 23, 48–54.

 

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