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Saprobic conidial fungi associated with palm leaf litter in eastern Amazon, Brazil

Journal

ANAIS DA ACADEMIA BRASILEIRA DE CIENCIAS
Volume 91, Issue 3, Pages -

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ACAD BRASILEIRA DE CIENCIAS
DOI: 10.1590/0001-3675201920180545

Keywords

asexual Ascomycota; Arecaceae; biodiversity; Flona Amapa; taxonomy

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  1. Programa de Pesquisa em Biodiversidade (PPBio) - Amazonia
  2. Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (CNPq)
  3. CNPq

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Fungi play an important role in litter decomposition in forest ecosystems and are considered an undersampled group in the Amazon biome. This study aims to describe the composition, richness and frequency of species of conidial fungi associated with palm trees in an area of the Amapa National Forest, State of Amapa, Brazil. Palm leaf litter was collected from July 2009 to June 2010, incubated in moist chambers and examined for the presence of fungi. One hundred and seven species of conidial fungi were identified, in 79 genera and 25 families. As for the relative frequency of the species, the majority (94.4%) was sporadic and occurred on leaflets. We report new records for South America (Chaetopsis intermedia, Chaetochalara laevis and Thysanophora verrucosa) and Brazil (Chloridium phaeosporum, Helminthosporiella stilbacea and Zygosporium geminatum), and 83 for the State of Amapa, while 15 are also new for the Brazilian Amazon. This study significantly increases the knowledge about the distribution of the fungal species in the Amazon biome, and emphasizes the importance of the conservation of these organisms particularly in view of the large number of sporadic species recorded.

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