Rosettozyma motuoensis Q.M. Wang, F.Y. Bai & A.H. Li sp. nov. 2020
MycoBank MB 828834
Holotype: China, Motuo, Tibet, obtained from a leaf of an unidentified plant, Sep. 2014, Q.-M. Wang (holotype CGMCC 2.5819T preserved in a metabolically inactive state, ex-type CBS 15588 = XZ118E6).
Morphological description
Culture characteristics: In YM broth, after 7 d at 17 °C, cells are ellipsoidal, either singly or in rosettes, 1.5–2.5 × 12.5–20.0 μm, budding is polar (Fig. 16E), a sediment is formed. After 1 mo at 17 °C, a pellicle and a sediment are present. On YM agar, after 1 mo at 17 °C, the streak culture is white, butyrous, smooth, semi-glistening. 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 or falcate, 1.4–2.3 × 11.7–21.0 μm (Fig. 16F).
Habitat: a leaf of an unidentified plant.
Distribution: Motuo, Tibet, China.
GenBank Accession: 18S+ITS+D1/D2 MK050400; RPB1 MK849260; RPB2 MK849397; CYTB MK848991
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Reference: A.-H. Li1,2, F.-X. Yuan1,3, M. Groenewald4 et al.
