title: A phylogenetic study of Dothiorella and Spencermartinsia species associated with woody plants in Iran, New Zealand, Portugal and Spain.
abstract: Dothiorella and Spencermartinsia are two botryosphaeriaceous genera with dark 2-celled conidia and found in parasitic, saprophytic or endophytic association with various woody host plants. Based on ITS and EF1-α sequence data and morphology, eight new species are described from Iran, New Zealand, Portugal and Spain. Of these, five species are placed in Dothiorella, namely D. iranica, D. parva, D. prunicola, D. sempervirentis and D. striata, and three species belong to Spencermartinsia named as S. citricola, S. mangiferae and S. plurivora. An identification key to the species of each genus is provided.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Kurdistan, P.O. Box 416, Sanandaj, Iran;
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Abdollahzadeh
authors.affiliation: Department of Botany, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, P.O. Box 1454, Tehran 19395, Iran.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Javadi
authors.affiliation: Department of Botany, Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, P.O. Box 1454, Tehran 19395, Iran.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Zare
authors.affiliation: Centro de Recursos Microbiológicos, Departamento de Ciências da Vida, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516 Caparica, Portugal.
authors.forename: A J L
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Phillips
keywords: Botryosphaeriaceae; Dothiorella; ITS; Spencermartinsia; phylogeny; systematics; taxonomy