Pseudobensingtonia fusiformis Q.M. Wang, F.Y. Bai & A.H. Li sp. nov. 2020
MycoBank MB 828803
Holotype: China, Bomi, Tibet, obtained from a leaf of an unidentified plant, Sep. 2014, Q.-M. Wang (holotype CGMCC 2.5823T preserved in a metabolically inactive state, ex-type CBS 15647 = XZ152EA3).
Morphological description
Culture characteristics: In YM broth, after 7 d at 17 °C, cells are cylindrical, ellipsoidal and fusiform, 7.6–13.3 × 2.2–3.6 μm and single, budding is polar (Fig. 14F), a sediment is present. On YM agar, after 1 mo at 17 °C, the streak culture is yellow, butyrous, wrinkled and dull. 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 an unidentified plant.
Distribution: Bomi, Tibet, China.
GenBank Accession: 18S+ITS+D1/D2 MK050370; RPB1 MK849123; RPB2 MK849265; EF1 MK848997; CYTB MK848870
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Reference: A.-H. Li1,2, F.-X. Yuan1,3, M. Groenewald4 et al.
