Sinodiscula camellicola S. Y. Zhao, M. J. Guo & C. L. Hou

Apurillo, Carlo Chris S., Phukhamsakda, Chayanard, Hyde, Kevin D., Thiyagaraja, Vinodhini & Jones, E. B. Gareth, 2025, New fungal genus, three novel species and one new record from mangroves, with reclassification of Melanconiella (Melanconiellaceae) species, MycoKeys 116, pp. 25-52 : 25-52

Sinodiscula camellicola S. Y. Zhao, M. J. Guo & C. L. Hou , Journal of Fungi 10 (2, no. 141): 9 (2024)

≡ Melanconiella camelliae T. C. Mu & Jun Z. Qiu, Front. Microbiol. 14 (1229705): 6 (2023). MycoBank No: 848667.

Description.

Descriptions and illustrations refer to Mu et al. (2023) and Guo et al. (2024).

Notes.

In the present analysis, Melanconiella camelliae formed a well-supported clade with Sinodiscula camellicola . Detailed morphological comparison reveals that these two species are similar with no notable differences. Both species were isolated as pathogens from Camellia sinensis , from Fujian Province ( China) for Melanconiella camelliae and from Anhui Province ( China) for Sinodiscula camellicola ( Guo et al. 2024) . Moreover, the ITS sequences of Melanconiella camelliae and Sinodiscula camellicola differ by only 1 %. Due to these similarities in morphology, ecology and molecular data of the two species, we propose to synonymize M. camelliae and S. camellicola under Sinodiscula ( Melanconiellaceae ).