Chrysosporium gansuense Y.F. Han, W.H. Chen, J.D. Liang & Z.Q. Liang, 2022

Han, Yan-Feng, Ge, Wei, Zhang, Zhi-Yuan, Liang, Jian-Dong, Chen, Wan-Hao, Huang, Jian- Zhong & Liang, Zong-Qi, 2022, Morphological and phylogenetic characterisations reveal nine new species of Chrysosporium (Onygenaceae, Onygenales) in China, Phytotaxa 539 (1), pp. 1-16 : 5-6

Chrysosporium gansuense Y.F. Han, W.H. Chen, J.D. Liang & Z.Q. Liang , sp. nov. (Fig. 3) Mycobank No.: MB 838864

Type: — CHINA. Gansu Province: Jiayuguan City , N39.47°, E98.17°, from soil, August 2017, Y.F. Han, holotype GZAC.C4.1; ex-type culture GZU.C4.1.

Colonies on PDA attaining about 40 mm diam. at 26 °C after 14 days, flat, powdery, margin villiform, creamy to white from center to margin; reverse creamy. Hyphae septate, smooth, hyaline, 0.5–2.0 μm. Racquet hyphae absent. Conidia abundant, hyaline, rough, lateral or terminal, arising from aerial hyphae directly or on short protrusions, unicellular, pyriform or clavate, 3.5–6.0 × 1.5–3.5 μm, or ellipsoidal, 3.5–4.5 × 2.5–4.0 μm, with truncate base, basal scars 0.5–1.0 μm; intercalary conidia ellipsoidal, 3.0–5.0 × 1.5–2.5 μm. Chlamydospores absent.

Etymology: —Referring to the region from which the fungus was isolated.

Additional strains examined: — CHINA. Gansu Province: Jiayuguan, soil, N39.47°, E98.17°, August 2017, J.J. Wang, GZAC.C4.2, living culture GZU.C4.2.

Known distribution: —Jiayuguan city, Gansu Province, China.