Molecular systematics of Keratinophyton: the inclusion of species formerly referred to Chrysosporium and description of four new species

Abstract Four new Keratinophyton species ( Ascomycota , Pezizomycotina Onygenales ), K. gollerae lemmensii straussii, and wagneri isolated from soil samples originating Europe (Austria, Italy, Slovakia) are described illustrated. The taxa well supported by phylogenetic analysis of the internal transcribed spacer region (ITS) region, combined data ITS nuclear large subunit (LSU) rDNA, their phenotype. Based on phylogeny, within clade, K . is clustered with durum, hubeiense submersum, siglerae, while straussii resolved in a separate terminal cluster. All four can be distinguished other genus based phenotype characteristics alone. Ten combinations proposed for Chrysosporium which monophyletic clade. A key to recognized provided herein.