s:1017:"%T Neopestalotiopsis cavernicola sp. nov. from Gem Cave in Yunnan Province, China 
%A Liu, X. 
%A Tibpromma, S. 
%A Zhang, F. 
%A Xu, J. 
%A Chethana, K.W.T. 
%A Karunarathna, S.C. 
%A Mortimer, P.E. 
%X In this paper we describe a new species of cave fungus belonging to Sporocadaceae (Amphisphaeriales), collected from Gem Cave, Fumin County, Yunnan Province, China. Initial morphological observations confirmed that our fungal collection is a pestalotioid species. Phylogenetic analyses of combined internal transcribed spacer (ITS), β-tubulin (TUB) and translation elongation factor 1-alpha (TEF1α) gene sequence dataset confirmed that our fungus forms an independent branch within Neopestalotiopsis. Thus, we describe our fungus as a new species of Neopestalotiopsis based on both morphology and multigene phylogeny. This is the first-ever report of Neopestalotiopsis from a cave habitat. A full description, micrographs and a phylogenetic tree showing the placement of the new species are provided. 
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