Chrysosporium ovalisporum Z. Li, Y.W. Zhang, W.H. Chen & Y.F. Han, 2019

Li, Zhong, Zhang, Yan-Wei, Chen, Wan-Hao & Han, Yan-Feng, 2019, Morphological traits and molecular analysis for two new Chrysosporium species from Fujian Province, China, Phytotaxa 400 (5), pp. 257-264 : 261

Chrysosporium ovalisporum Z. Li, Y.W. Zhang, W.H. Chen & Y.F. Han sp. nov. ( Fig. 3)

MycoBank No.: MB 819481, GenBank: KY350787, KY350788

Type: — CHINA. Fujian Province: Fuzhou City, 26°08´N, 119°28´E, GZUIFR-G 446 (dried culture) isolated from soils of the zoo park.

Colonies on PDA attaining 28 mm in 14 d at 25 °C, white to yellowish, powdery, flat, margin irregular; reverse brown. Hyphae hyaline, septate, smooth, 2.5–3.5 μm wide. Racquet hyphae absent. Terminal and lateral conidia on long or short stalk perpendicular to hyphae, solitary, hyaline, smooth, single-celled, occasionally 2-celled, long obovate to clavate, few cylindrical, 5–15 × 2.5–7 μm (x = 6.5 × 4.6, n = 60), basal scars 0.8–2.5 μm wide. Intercalary conidia and chlamydospores absent.

Etymology:— ovalisporum (Latin) , referring the conidia that are long obovate.

Material examined: —The ex-type G446.1 and ex-isotype G446.2 isolated from the soils of the zoo park in November 2014 by Y.F. Han. The ex-type G446.1 culture was dried to form the type GZUIFR-G 446. They were deposited in the Institute of Fungus Resource, Guizhou University ( GZAC).

Distribution: —Fuzhou, Fujian Province, China.