IMA Fungus 9(1): 75-89, doi: 10.5598/imafungus.2018.09.01.06
Competing sexual and asexual generic names in Pucciniomycotina and Ustilaginomycotina (Basidiomycota) and recommendations for use
M. Catherine Aime‡, Lisa A. Castlebury§, Mehrdad Abbasi|, Dominik Begerow, Reinhard Berndt¶, Roland Kirschner#, Ludmila Marvanová¤, Yoshitaka Ono«, Mahajabeen Padamsee», Markus Scholler˄, Marco Thines˅, Amy Y. Rossman¦‡ Purdue University, West Lafayette, United States of America§ USDA-ARS, Mycology & Nematology Genetic Diversity and Biology Laboratory, Beltsville| Purdue University, Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, West Lafayette¶ ETH Zürich, Plant Ecological Genetics, Zürich, Switzerland# National Central University, Department of Biomedical Sciences and Engineering, Taoyuan City¤ Masaryk University, Czech Collection of Microoorganisms, Faculty of Science, Brno, Czech Republic« Ibaraki University, Faculty of Education, Mito, Ibaraki, Japan» Systematics Team, Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research, Auckland, New Zealand˄ Staatliches Museum f. Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany˅ Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Frankfurt (Main), Germany¦ USDA-ARS, Systematic Mycology & Microbiology Laboratory, Beltsville
© M. Catherine Aime, Lisa Castlebury, Mehrdad Abbasi, Dominik Begerow, Reinhard Berndt, Roland Kirschner, Ludmila Marvanová, Yoshitaka Ono, Mahajabeen Padamsee, Markus Scholler, Marco Thines, Amy Rossman. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-NC 4.0), which permits to copy and distribute the article for non-commercial purposes, provided that the article is not altered or modified and the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Aime MC, Castlebury LA, Abbasi M, Begerow D, Berndt R, Kirschner R, Marvanová L, Ono Y, Padamsee M, Scholler M, Thines M, Rossman AY (2018) Competing sexual and asexual generic names in Pucciniomycotina and Ustilaginomycotina (Basidiomycota) and recommendations for use. IMA Fungus 9(1): 75-89. https://doi.org/10.5598/imafungus.2018.09.01.06 |  |
Abstract
With the change to one scientific name for pleomorphic fungi, generic names typified by sexual and asexual morphs have been evaluated to recommend which name to use when two names represent the same genus and thus compete for use. In this paper, generic names in Pucciniomycotina and Ustilaginomycotina are evaluated based on their type species to determine which names are synonyms. Twenty-one sets of sexually and asexually typified names in Pucciniomycotina and eight sets in Ustilaginomycotina were determined to be congeneric and compete for use. Recommendations are made as to which generic name to use. In most cases the principle of priority is followed. However, eight generic names in the Pucciniomycotina, and none in Ustilaginomycotina, are recommended for protection: Classicula over Naiadella, Gymnosporangium over Roestelia, Helicobasidium over Thanatophytum and Tuberculina, Melampsorella over Peridermium, Milesina over Milesia, Phragmidium over Aregma, Sporobolomyces over Blastoderma and Rhodomyces, and Uromyces over Uredo. In addition, eight new combinations are made: Blastospora juruensis, B. subneurophyla, Cronartium bethelii, C. kurilense, C. sahoanum, C. yamabense, Milesina polypodii, and Prospodium crusculum combs. nov.
Keywords
Basidiomycetes, pleomorphic fungi, taxonomy, protected names, rejected names, unit nomenclature, new taxa