Table 4 Matching of fungal taxa detected by culture-dependent approach with fungal ASVs from culture-independent approach (Similarity: 90–100%).

From: Cultivable fungal diversity in two karstic caves in Italy: under-investigated habitats as source of putative novel taxa

Culturomics

Metabarcoding

Sim %

Taxon

S1

S2

S3

S4

CC

Fungal taxa (ASV)

S1

S2

S3

S4

CC

Alternaria alternata

   

 

Alternaria (ASV249, ASV2430, ASV1466, ASV5203, ASV6914)

99–100

Anopodium ampullaceum

    

Lasiosphaeriaceae (ASV313, ASV11, ASV1476)

98–100

Apiotrichum dulcitum

 

   

Apiotrichum (ASV6, ASV4577, ASV2372, ASV268, ASV2982)

98–100

Arthroderma terrestre

    

Arthrodermataceae, Trichophyton (ASV2632, ASV7547, ASV4457 )

 

 

98–100

Arthroderma uncinatum

 

   

Arthroderma (ASV2378)

 

 

100

Aureobasidium pullulans

   

Aureobasidiaceae, Aureobasidium (ASV575, ASV4267, ASV7844, ASV7358 )

 

 

99–100

Botrytis cinerea

  

  

Botryotinia (ASV7216)

   

 

98

Cadophora de✕trinospora

  

  

Cadophora (ASV1800)

 

 

100

Cephalotrichum domesticum

  

  

Cephalotrichum (ASV734, ASV634, ASV170, ASV23)

98–100

Cephalotrichum longicollum

   

 

Cephalotrichum (ASV634, ASV734, ASV23

98–99

Cladosporium allicinum

    

Cladosporium (ASV5598, ASV296, ASV3335)

99

Cladosporium cladosporioides

    

Ascomycota, Cladosporium (ASV41, ASV398, ASV3661, ASV353, ASV3343, ASV215, ASV415, ASV516, ASV1353

98–100

Cordyceps farinosa

    

Isaria (ASV2450)

   

100

Epicoccum nigrum

  

Epicoccum (ASV173, ASV6622, ASV2726)

99–100

Furcasterigmium furcatum

  

  

Acremonium, Gibellulopsis, Cephalosporium (ASV455, ASV614, ASV1953, ASV2745, ASV1296)

98–100

Fusarium sp.

   

 

Gibberella (ASV4526, ASV158, ASV5204, ASV4897, ASV3298, ASV2105)

98–100

Leotiales sp.

  

  

Leotiomycetes (ASV434, ASV3854)

 

 

99–100

Lasionectria hilhorstii

  

  

Nectriaceae, Ascomycota (ASV199, ASV1877)

 

99–100

Lecanicillium coprophilum

 

   

Lecanicillium (ASV4613, ASV6092)

 

 

99–100

Phacidiales sp.

   

 

Helotiales (ASV166, ASV96)

 

100

Mammaria echinobotryoides

 

  

Cercophora (ASV58, ASV1424, ASV219, ASV627)

98–100

Neobulgaria sp.

   

 

Helotiales, Neobulgaria (ASV208, ASV566, ASV1829)

 

98–100

Oidiodendron tenuissimum

  

  

Oidiodendron (ASV558)

 

 

100

Paracremonium variiforme

 

 

 

Nectriaceae (ASV65, ASV77, ASV1487)

98–100

Penicillium expansum

  

  

Penicillium (ASV177)

100

Penicillium glandicola

    

Penicillium (ASV143, ASV529, ASV196, ASV257, ASV338, ASV1126, ASV572, ASV2411 )

98–100

Psathyrella candolleana

 

   

Psathyrella (ASV3288, ASV2917)

    

99–100

Pseudogymnoascus pannorum

 

Pseudogymnoascus (ASV118, ASV103, ASV828, ASV601, ASV350, ASV590, ASV167, ASV1100

98–100

Sporothrix inflata

    

Sporothrix (ASV371, ASV4050)

  

 

98–99

Stephanonectria keithii

  

  

Stephanonectria ( ASV1118, ASV3677)

 

  

99

Tetracladium globosum

   

 

Tetracladium (ASV691, ASV5298, ASV36, ASV4432, ASV130, ASV597, ASV264, ASV508, ASV624)

98–100

Tolypocladium cylindrosporum

   

Tolypocladium (ASV2777, ASV69, ASV7850, ASV7057, ASV5653, ASV4447, ASV417, ASV3074, ASV1751, ASV1477, ASV1157, ASV6918, ASV6203, ASV5227, ASV2494, ASV4750, ASV5086 )

98–100

 

Trichocladium asperum

  

  

Trichocladium (ASV17, ASV165)

98–99

Trichosporiella cerebriformis

  

  

Tetracladium (ASV36, ASV691, ASV4432, ASV5298, ASV130, ASV597, ASV264, ASV508, ASV624, ASV180, ASV616)

98–99

Volutella ciliata

 

   

Volutella (ASV100, ASV791, ASV361, ASV413)

 

98–100

  1. Newly generated sequences relative to the putative new taxa are in bold.