Microbotryozyma swertiae Q.M. Wang, F.Y. Bai & A.H. Li sp. nov. 2020
MycoBank MB 828846
Holotype: China, Chuxiong county, Yunnan province, obtained from a leaf of Swertia yunnanensis, Nov. 2006, Q.-M. Wang (holotype CGMCC 2.3533T preserved in a metabolically inactive state, extype CBS 15495 = ZXS7.7).
Morphological description
Culture characteristics: In YM broth, after 7 d at 17 °C, cells are cylindrical and lunate, 1.7–2.5 × 3.9–5.6 μm and single, budding is polar (Fig. 18G), a sediment is present. On YM agar, after 1 mo at 17 °C, the streak culture is cream, butyrous, smooth and glossy. The margin is entire. In Dalmau plate culture on corn meal agar, pseudohyphae are not formed. Sexual structures are not observed on YM, PDA, V8 and CM agar. Ballistoconidia are not produced.
Habitat: a leaf of Swertia yunnanensis.
Distribution: Chuxiong county, Yunnan province, China.
GenBank Accession: 18S+ITS+D1/D2 MK050424; RPB1 MK849180; RPB2 MK849318; EF1 MK849049; CYTB MK848918
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Reference: A.-H. Li1,2, F.-X. Yuan1,3, M. Groenewald4 et al.
