Microsporomyces rubellus Q.M. Wang, F.Y. Bai & A.H. Li sp. nov. 2020
MycoBank MB 828819
Holotype: China, Taiwan province, obtained from a leaf of an unidentified plant, Aug. 2009, Q.-M. Wang (holotype CGMCC 2.4444T preserved in a metabolically inactive state, ex-type CBS 15622 = TW1.3F-017).
Morphological description
Culture characteristics: In YM broth, after 7 d at 17 °C, cells are ovoid and ellipsoidal, 3.8–6.2 × 5.1–8.1 μm and single, budding is polar (Fig. 15G), a sediment is formed. After 1 mo at 17 °C, a ring and a sediment are present. On YM agar, after 1 mo at 17 °C, the streak culture is pale-red, butyrous, smooth and semi-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 allantoid, reniform or cylindrical, 2.1–5.7 × 5.0–11.4 μm (Fig. 15H).
Habitat: a leaf of an unidentified plant.
Distribution: Taiwan, China.
GenBank Accession: 18S+ITS+D1/D2 MK050385; RPB1 MK849205; RPB2 MK849344; EF1 MK849071
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Reference: A.-H. Li1,2, F.-X. Yuan1,3, M. Groenewald4 et al.
