Saitozyma pseudoflava Q.M. Wang, F.Y. Bai & A.H. Li sp. nov. 2020
MycoBank MB 828758
Holotype: China, Tibet, obtained from a leaf of an unidentified plant, Sep. 2014, Q.-M. Wang (holotype CGMCC 2.5811T preserved in a metabolically inactive state, ex-type CBS 15576 = XZ200A1).
Morphological description
Culture characteristics: In YM broth, after 7 d at 17 °C, cells are subglobosal and ovoid, 3.2–4.3 × 5.2–6.8 μm and single, budding is polar (Fig. 8A), a sediment is formed. After 1 mo at 17 °C, a pellicle and sediment are present. On YM agar, after 1 mo at 17 °C, the streak culture is yellowish-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 an unidentified plant.
Distribution: Tibet, China.
GenBank Accession: 18S+ITS+D1/D2 MK050284; RPB1 MK849251; RPB2 MK849387; EF1 MK849114; CYTB MK848987
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Reference: A.-H. Li1,2, F.-X. Yuan1,3, M. Groenewald4 et al.
