Abstract
Penicillium is the most common fungal genus in various terrestrial and marine environments. The number of new and unrecorded Penicillium species from various substrates and habitats are continuously increasing. As part of a project to discover indigenous fungi in South Korea, three unrecorded Penicillium species were isolated from mudflats and seaweeds. Based on morphological characteristics and phylogenetic analyses of β-tubulin and calmodulin loci, they were identified as P. amaliae, P. infrabuccalum, and P. manginii. Here, we provide a detailed morphological description and sequence information of these previously unrecorded species.
Figures & Tables
Fig. 1. Maximum likelihood (ML) phylogenetic trees of series (A) Sclerotiorum, (B) Simplicissima, and (C) Westlingiorum within Penicillium based on the combined data set of BenA and CaM. Bootstrap scores>70 are presented at the nodes. The scale bar represents the number of nucleotide substitutions per site. The unrecorded Penicillium species are accented in color boxes.
