Balsamia luyashanensis 2020

Balsamia luyashanensis (L. Fan & Y.Y. Xu) L. Fan & Y.Y. Xu., comb. 2020

MycoBank No: 834964

Holotype: China. Shanxi Province, Ningwu County, Qiuqiangou Village, Luyashan Mountain, alt. 2100m, 25 August 2017, in soil under Picea sp., M. Chen CM023 (BJTC FAN764).

Morphological description

Habitat: In soil under Picea sp.

Distribution: In China.

GenBank Accession: 

Notes: Balsamia luyashanensis is also recently described from the Luyashan Mountain of Shanxi Province, China, under Picea sp. So far it is known only from the type locality. The species can be recognized by its red brown ascomata with fine warts, gleba without chambers and irregularly clavate asci (Xu et al. 2018). The species was similar in appearance of ascomata to B. gunerii and B. hellenica but B. gunerii can be separated by its subglobose to ovoid ascospores and gleba with irregularly sinuous, labyrinth-like veins (Doğan et al. 2018; Hansen et al. 2019), while B. hellenica by its ovoid ascospores (Kaounas et al. 2015; Hansen et al. 2019).

Reference: Yu-Yan Xu¹, Xiang-Yuan Yan¹, Ting Li¹ et al.

Balsamia lishanensis (BJTC FAN676, holotype) a, b ascomata c warts (when fresh) d warts (when dry) e, f peridium g paraphyses h, i mature ascus j ascospores. Scale bars: 5 mm (a, b); 500 μm (c); 300 μm (d); 100 μm (e, f); 25 μm (g, h, i); 20 μm (j).