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Although the first Teratosphaeria spp. with colletogloeopsis-like anamorphs were described outside of Australia, recently many new species have been described from Australia. In the present study, several new Teratosphaeria spp. were collected from infected eucalypt leaves in eastern Australia. Phylogenetic and morphological studies revealed five new taxa described here as Teratosphaeria aurantia, T. biformis, T. foliensis, T. micromaculata and T. tinara.
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This work was supported financially by an ARC APAI linkage project LP0349190. The authors acknowledge Sally Collins, ITC Ltd, Australia for collecting samples from New South Wales. We also thank Ewald Groenewald CBS Fungal Diversity Centre, Uppsalalaan, Utrecht, the Netherlands for BT sequences of CPC13303, CPC11264 and CPC11267. We thank Kate Taylor and Paul Barber for assistance with the drawings and Thomas Jung for Latin translations.
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Andjic, V., Whyte, G., Hardy, G. et al. New Teratosphaeria species occurring on eucalypts in Australia. Fungal Diversity 43, 27–38 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13225-010-0033-5
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