Morphological and Phylogenetic Analyses Reveal Three New Species of () from Jiangxi, China

contains numerous plant pathogenic and saprobic species associated with a wide range of hosts. Over the course of our mycological surveys of plant pathogens from terrestrial plants in Jiangxi Province, China, eight strains isolated from diseased leaves of four host genera represented three new species of , sp. nov., sp. nov., and sp. nov. Phylogenetic analyses of combined ITS, LSU, and sequence data, using maximum-likelihood (ML) and Bayesian inference (BI), revealed their taxonomic placement within . Both morphological examinations and molecular phylogenetic analyses supported , and as three new taxa within . Illustrations and descriptions of these three taxa were provided, along with comparisons with closely related taxa in the genus.