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Article

Unveiling Species Diversity Within Early-Diverging Fungi from China XI: Eight New Species of Cunninghamella (Mucoromycota)

by
Yang Jiang
1,†,
Heng Zhao
2,†,
Xin-Yu Ji
1,
Zi-Ying Ding
1,
Wen-Xiu Liu
1,
Fei Li
1,
Shi Wang
1,
Xiao-Yong Liu
1,3 and
Zhe Meng
1,*
1
College of Life Sciences, Shandong Normal University, Changqinghu Campus Jinan 250358, China
2
CAS Key Laboratory of Forest Ecology and Silviculture, Institute of Applied Ecology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang 110016, China
3
Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
†
These authors contributed equally to this work.
Microorganisms 2025, 13(11), 2508; https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms13112508 (registering DOI)
Submission received: 24 September 2025 / Revised: 28 October 2025 / Accepted: 30 October 2025 / Published: 31 October 2025
(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Microbiology)
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Abstract

The genus Cunninghamella is widely distributed, primarily saprotrophic, occasionally endophytic and phytopathogenic. Analysis based on the internal transcribed spacer (ITS), the large subunit (LSU) of ribosomal DNA, and translation elongation factor 1 alpha (TEF1α), along with morphological comparisons, resulted in a discovery of eight new species. Molecular phylogenetic analyses placed each of these new species within well-supported clades. Cunninghamella crassior sp. nov., with short and thick spines, and C. fusca sp. nov. with brown sporangiola, are sister clades to each other. C. diffundens sp. nov., containing dispersed granules in sporangiola, is closely related to C. irregularis Zhao. C. tuberculata sp. nov., producing sporangiola with nodule-like protrusions. C. fulvicolor sp. nov., sister to C. irregularis, forms yellowish-brown pigmented colonies. C. guttulata sp. nov., with teardrop-shaped sporangiola, and C. inaequalis sp. nov., with uneven sporangiola, are both closely related to C. regularis Zhao. C. monosporangiola sp. nov., characterized by only one sporangiolum on some vesicles, is sister to C. verrucosa Zhao. This study represents the eleventh installment in a series investigating early-diverging fungal diversity in China and expands the number of accepted species in Cunninghamella to 39.
Keywords: Cunninghamella; basal fungi; fungal diversity; taxonomy; molecular phylogeny Cunninghamella; basal fungi; fungal diversity; taxonomy; molecular phylogeny

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Jiang, Y.; Zhao, H.; Ji, X.-Y.; Ding, Z.-Y.; Liu, W.-X.; Li, F.; Wang, S.; Liu, X.-Y.; Meng, Z. Unveiling Species Diversity Within Early-Diverging Fungi from China XI: Eight New Species of Cunninghamella (Mucoromycota). Microorganisms 2025, 13, 2508. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms13112508

AMA Style

Jiang Y, Zhao H, Ji X-Y, Ding Z-Y, Liu W-X, Li F, Wang S, Liu X-Y, Meng Z. Unveiling Species Diversity Within Early-Diverging Fungi from China XI: Eight New Species of Cunninghamella (Mucoromycota). Microorganisms. 2025; 13(11):2508. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms13112508

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Jiang, Yang, Heng Zhao, Xin-Yu Ji, Zi-Ying Ding, Wen-Xiu Liu, Fei Li, Shi Wang, Xiao-Yong Liu, and Zhe Meng. 2025. "Unveiling Species Diversity Within Early-Diverging Fungi from China XI: Eight New Species of Cunninghamella (Mucoromycota)" Microorganisms 13, no. 11: 2508. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms13112508

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Jiang, Y., Zhao, H., Ji, X.-Y., Ding, Z.-Y., Liu, W.-X., Li, F., Wang, S., Liu, X.-Y., & Meng, Z. (2025). Unveiling Species Diversity Within Early-Diverging Fungi from China XI: Eight New Species of Cunninghamella (Mucoromycota). Microorganisms, 13(11), 2508. https://doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms13112508

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