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available online at www.studiesinmycology.<strong>or</strong>gStudies in Mycology 73: 37–113.The <strong>Colletotrichum</strong> acutatum <strong>species</strong> <strong>complex</strong>U. Damm 1* , P.F. Cannon 2 , J.H.C. Woudenberg 1 , and P.W. Crous 1,3,41<strong>CBS</strong>-<strong>KNAW</strong> Fungal Biodiversity Centre, Uppsalalaan 8, 3584 CT Utrecht, The Netherlands; 2 CABI Europe-UK, Bakeham Lane, Egham, Surrey TW20 9TY, UK and RoyalBotanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond TW9 3AB, UK; 3 Microbiology, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands; 4 WageningenUniversity and Research Centre (WUR), Lab<strong>or</strong>at<strong>or</strong>y of Phytopathology, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, 6708 PB Wageningen, The Netherlands*C<strong>or</strong>respondence: Ulrike Damm, u.damm@cbs.knaw.nlAbstract: <strong>Colletotrichum</strong> acutatum is known as an imp<strong>or</strong>tant anthracnose pathogen of a wide range of host plants w<strong>or</strong>ldwide. Numerous studies have rep<strong>or</strong>ted subgroups withinthe C. acutatum <strong>species</strong> <strong>complex</strong>. Multilocus molecular phylogenetic analysis (ITS, ACT, TUB2, CHS-1, GAPDH, HIS3) of 331 strains previously identified as C. acutatum andother related taxa, including strains from numerous hosts with wide geographic distributions, confirmed the molecular groups previously recognised and identified a series ofnovel taxa. Thirty-one <strong>species</strong> are accepted, of which 21 have not previously been recognised. <strong>Colletotrichum</strong> <strong>or</strong>chidophilum clusters basal to the C. acutatum <strong>species</strong> <strong>complex</strong>.There is a high phenotypic diversity within this <strong>complex</strong>, and some of the <strong>species</strong> appear to have preferences to specific hosts <strong>or</strong> geographical regions. Others appear to bepluriv<strong>or</strong>ous and are present in multiple regions. In this study, only C. salicis and C. rhombif<strong>or</strong>me f<strong>or</strong>med sexual m<strong>or</strong>phs in culture, although sexual m<strong>or</strong>phs have been describedfrom other taxa (especially as lab<strong>or</strong>at<strong>or</strong>y crosses), and there is evidence of hybridisation between different <strong>species</strong>. One <strong>species</strong> with similar m<strong>or</strong>phology to C. acutatum but notbelonging to this <strong>species</strong> <strong>complex</strong> was also described here as new, namely C. pseudoacutatum.Key w<strong>or</strong>ds: anthracnose, Ascomycota, <strong>Colletotrichum</strong> acutatum, Gloeosp<strong>or</strong>ium, Glomerella, phylogeny, systematics.Taxonomic novelties: New combinations - <strong>Colletotrichum</strong> limetticola (R.E. Clausen) Damm, P.F. Cannon & Crous, C. lupini (Bondar) Damm, P.F. Cannon & Crous, C. salicis(Fuckel) Damm, P.F. Cannon & Crous. New <strong>species</strong> - C. acerbum Damm, P.F. Cannon & Crous, C. australe Damm, P.F. Cannon & Crous, C. brisbanense Damm, P.F. Cannon& Crous, C. cosmi Damm, P.F. Cannon & Crous, C. costaricense Damm, P.F. Cannon & Crous, C. cuscutae Damm, P.F. Cannon & Crous, C. guajavae Damm, P.F. Cannon &Crous, C. indonesiense Damm, P.F. Cannon & Crous, C. johnstonii Damm, P.F. Cannon & Crous, C. kingh<strong>or</strong>nii Damm, P.F. Cannon & Crous, C. laticiphilum Damm, P.F. Cannon& Crous, C. melonis Damm, P.F. Cannon & Crous, C. <strong>or</strong>chidophilum Damm, P.F. Cannon & Crous, C. paxtonii Damm, P.F. Cannon & Crous, C. pseudoacutatum Damm, P.F.Cannon & Crous C. pyricola Damm, P.F. Cannon & Crous, C. rhombif<strong>or</strong>me Damm, P.F. Cannon & Crous, C. scovillei Damm, P.F. Cannon & Crous, C. sloanei Damm, P.F. Cannon& Crous, C. tamarilloi Damm, P.F. Cannon & Crous, C. walleri Damm, P.F. Cannon & Crous. Typifications: Epitypifications - C. acutatum J.H. Simmonds, C. limetticola (R.E.Clausen) Damm, P.F. Cannon & Crous, C. nymphaeae (Pass.) Aa, C. ph<strong>or</strong>mii (Henn.) D.F. Farr & Rossman, C. salicis (Fuckel) Damm, P.F. Cannon & Crous. Lectotypifications- C. nymphaeae (Pass.) Aa, C. <strong>or</strong>chidearum Allesch.Published online: 16 August 2012; doi:10.3114/sim0010. Hard copy: September 2012.Studies in MycologyINTRODUCTION<strong>Colletotrichum</strong> acutatum is one of the most frequently rep<strong>or</strong>ted<strong>species</strong> of the genus and causes diseases commonly known asanthracnose on numerous host plants w<strong>or</strong>ldwide (Farr & Rossman2012). Originally described from diseased tissues of Caricapapaya, Capsicum frutescens and Delphinium ajacis in Australiaby Simmonds (1965), the C. acutatum <strong>species</strong> <strong>complex</strong> is todayknown as especially destructive on fruits like strawberry (Garridoet al. 2009), citrus (Peres et al. 2008), apple (Lee et al. 2007),olive (Talhinhas et al. 2011), cranberry (Polashock et al. 2009) andblueberry (Wharton & Schilder 2008). It is also implicated in the“terminal crook” disease of pine (Dingley & Gilmour 1972) and inthe anthracnose of leather leaf fern (Schiller et al. 2006). There arealso rep<strong>or</strong>ts of a disseminated infection of a sea turtle (Manire etal. 2002) and the infection of a scale insect (Marcelino et al. 2008).Reviews of the <strong>species</strong> in its broad sense and its pathology werepublished by Wharton & Diéguez-Uribeondo (2004) and Peres etal. (2005).On strawberry, C. acutatum mainly causes black spot of fruitbut can also attack crowns, roots and leaves (Freeman & Katan1997), and is one of the most serious diseases in commercial fruitproduction. Largely due to its economic imp<strong>or</strong>tance as a strawberryCopyright <strong>CBS</strong>-<strong>KNAW</strong> Fungal Biodiversity Centre, P.O. Box 85167, 3508 AD Utrecht, The Netherlands.pathogen, C. acutatum was treated f<strong>or</strong> many years as a regulatedplant quarantine pest by the European and Mediterranean PlantProtection Organization (EPPO), though it is absent from thecurrent list (EPPO 2011) – presumably due to its now widespreaddistribution in Europe. Inoculum sources are frequently transplantmaterial, mostly with quiescent infections (Rahman & Louws 2008),infected plants, weeds and other hosts (McInnes et al. 1992,Parikka et al. 2006), while the survival rate of conidia in natural fieldsoil is low (Freeman et al. 2002).The most well-known m<strong>or</strong>phological feature of C. acutatum (s.lat.) is the shape of its conidia, which have acute ends (Simmonds1965). However, other conidial shapes, especially ± cylindricalwith only one acute end, are frequently encountered, especially instrains that have been repeatedly subcultured, but these conidialshapes can also occur in <strong>species</strong> outside the C. acutatum <strong>species</strong><strong>complex</strong>. Even the differentiation between C. acutatum (s. lat.) andC. gloeosp<strong>or</strong>ioides (s. lat.) is difficult, because many intermediatestrains exist with a restricted number of typical fusif<strong>or</strong>m conidia andmany cylindrical ones (Van der Aa et al. 1990). On the host, conidiaare f<strong>or</strong>med in acervuli; in culture, conidia are often also producedin the aerial mycelium (Johnston & Jones 1997). <strong>Colletotrichum</strong>acutatum has also been observed to f<strong>or</strong>m secondary conidia on thesurface of living strawberry leaves (Leandro et al. 2001) that wereYou are free to share - to copy, distribute and transmit the w<strong>or</strong>k, under the following conditions:Attribution:You must attribute the w<strong>or</strong>k in the manner specified by the auth<strong>or</strong> <strong>or</strong> licens<strong>or</strong> (but not in any way that suggests that they end<strong>or</strong>se you <strong>or</strong> your use of the w<strong>or</strong>k).Non-commercial: You may not use this w<strong>or</strong>k f<strong>or</strong> commercial purposes.No derivative w<strong>or</strong>ks: You may not alter, transf<strong>or</strong>m, <strong>or</strong> build upon this w<strong>or</strong>k.F<strong>or</strong> any reuse <strong>or</strong> distribution, you must make clear to others the license terms of this w<strong>or</strong>k, which can be found at http://creativecommons.<strong>or</strong>g/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/legalcode. 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