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Candida aechmeae sp. nov. and Candida vrieseae sp. nov., novel yeast species isolated from the phylloplane of bromeliads in southern Brazil

¹ Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul;
² Fiocruz;
³ Instituto do Câncer

⁴ E-mail: melissa.landell{at}gmail.com

Two new yeast species, Candida aechmeae sp. nov and Candida vrieseae sp. nov., were isolated from bromeliads in Itapuã Park/RS- Brazil. These species are genetically isolated from all other currently accepted ascomycetous yeasts based on their sequence divergence in the D1/D2 domain of the LSU rRNA gene. C. aechmeae sp. nov. is phylogenetically close to C. ubatubensis, a species also isolated from bromeliads in Brazil, but which can be differentiated from it by the D1/D2 domain, and the positive assimilation of L-arabinose, raffinose, inulin and citrate. Candida vrieseae sp. nov. is phylogenetically placed in a clade near C. membranifaciens composed of several species associated with insects, but can be differentiated from them by the D1/D2 and ITS sequences, positive assimilation of nitrite and negative assimilation of ethylamine. The type strains are C. aechmeae BI153T (=CBS 10831T = NRRL Y-48456T) and C. vrieseae BI146T (=CBS 10829T =NRRL Y-48461T).