taxonID	type	description	language	source
A5329802AD0550E6BFC3BFD94F135D2F.taxon	description	Fig. 20	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
A5329802AD0550E6BFC3BFD94F135D2F.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The species epithet “ coffeae ” refers to the host plant genus “ Coffea ” from which the fungus was isolated.	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
A5329802AD0550E6BFC3BFD94F135D2F.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Differs from Cy. goaensis by the ellipsoid and larger conidia.	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
A5329802AD0550E6BFC3BFD94F135D2F.taxon	description	Description. Saprobic on decaying branch of C. arabica. Teleomorph: Not observed. Anamorph: Coelomycetous. Conidiomata 100 – 180 µm high × 120 – 200 µm diam. (x- = 132 × 160 µm, n = 20), pycnidial, solitary, gregarious or confluent, immersed, unilocular, globose to subglobose or irregular, brown, with central ostiolar. Conidiomatal wall 15 – 20 µm wide (x- = 17.5 µm, n = 30), composed of 2 – 3 brown cells in the outer layers and two hyaline cells in the inner layer, with textura angularis cells. Conidiophores inconspicuous or micronematous, often reduced to conidiogenous cells. Conidiogenous cells 4 – 6 × 3 – 5 µm (x- = 5 × 4 µm, n = 30), phialidic, hyaline, cylindrical to ampulliform, smooth-walled. Conidia 4 – 7 × 2 – 3 µm (x- = 5.5 × 2.7 µm, n = 30), hyaline to brownish-orange, ellipsoid to cylindrical or some ovoid, continuous, straight or slightly curved, obtuse at apex and base, aseptate, guttulate, smooth-walled.	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
A5329802AD0550E6BFC3BFD94F135D2F.taxon	description	Culture characteristics. Conidia germinating on PDA within 24 h, colonies reached 3.5 cm in diameter after one month at 25 ° C, circular, radially striated, with a filiform edge, flat, smooth, colonies from above brown at the centre, hyaline to grey at the middle, dark green at the edge, from below, dark green to black.	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
25C2628D27BB53D98AEDC97755A97AC6.taxon	description	Fig. 8	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
25C2628D27BB53D98AEDC97755A97AC6.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The species epithet “ coffeae ” refers to the host plant genus “ Coffea ” from which the fungus was isolated.	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
25C2628D27BB53D98AEDC97755A97AC6.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Differs from F. fusiforme D. F. Bao, Z. L. Luo, K. D. Hyde & H. Y. Su, by an internal chamber at both ends of ascospores.	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
25C2628D27BB53D98AEDC97755A97AC6.taxon	description	Description. Saprobic on decaying branch of C. arabica. Teleomorph: Ascomata 280 – 450 µm high × 200 – 280 µm diam. (x- = 356 × 230 µm, n = 20) (including neck), solitary, rarely clustered, immersed, visible as black, crest-like ostiolar neck on the substrate, globose to subglobose, uniloculate. Ostioles central, with a pore-like opening, periphysate. Peridium 15 – 30 µm wide (x- = 24 µm, n = 30), composed of several layers of brown, thick-walled cells of textura angularis. Hamathecium 1.5 – 3 µm wide (x- = 2.2 µm, n = 30), hyphae-like, septate, branched, pseudoparaphyses. Asci 60 – 100 × 10 – 15 µm (x- = 75 × 12 µm, n = 30), 8 - spored, bitunicate, fissitunicate, cylindrical to clavate, straight, with a short furcate sessile, apically rounded with a broad ocular chamber. Ascospores 20 – 25 × 5 – 7 µm (x- = 22 × 6 µm, n = 30), overlapping biseriate, fusiform, hyaline, 1 - septate, constricted at the septum, the upper cell slightly wider than the lower cell, guttulate, smooth-walled, with a narrow bipolar sheath. Sheath drawn-out at both ends, 4 – 7 µm long × 2 – 3 µm wide (x- = 5.6 × 2.5 µm, n = 30), with an internal chamber at both ends of ascospores. Anamorph: Not observed.	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
25C2628D27BB53D98AEDC97755A97AC6.taxon	description	Culture characteristics. Ascospores germinating on PDA within 24 h, colonies reached 1.5 – 2 cm in diameter after twenty days at 25 ° C, circular, flat to umbonate, fluffy, smooth, with entire margin, from above, grey, from below, dark grey at the centre, white at the edge.	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
91BBAEBC14E95A8A8846E95E252E2BF2.taxon	description	Fig. 12	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
91BBAEBC14E95A8A8846E95E252E2BF2.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The epithet refers to the location “ Pu’er “ from where the holotype was collected.	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
91BBAEBC14E95A8A8846E95E252E2BF2.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Differs from H. quercinum Voglmayr & Jaklitsch and H. microsorum D. Sacc., by the hyaline ascospores with inconspicuous sheath.	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
91BBAEBC14E95A8A8846E95E252E2BF2.taxon	description	Description. Saprobic on decaying branch of C. arabica. Teleomorph: Ascomata 250 – 400 × 220 – 400 µm (x- = 320 × 310 µm, n = 15, including ostioles), solitary to scattered, immersed, visible as black dots with black hair on the host surface, globose to subglobose. Ostiolar neck central, cylindrical to papillate, surrounded by dark brown clypeus-like structure, without periphyses. Peridium 20 – 30 µm wide (x- = 26, n = 20), composed of 4 – 6 layers of textura angularis cells, polygonal to rectangular, light brown. Hamathecium 2 – 3 µm wide (x- = 2.2, n = 20), hyaline, filiform, branched, septate, pseudoparaphyses numerous. Asci 80 – 170 × 15 – 25 µm (x- = 130 × 19 µm, n = 20), 4 – 8 - spored, fissitunicate, bitunicate, clavate, straight, rounded at the apex, with a narrow apical chamber and faint ring, short-stalked with club-shape, sometimes with long stipes. Ascospores 25 – 30 × 7 – 11 µm (x- = 26.5 × 9 µm, n = 30), mostly straight, 1 – 3 - septate, constricted at the septum, asymmetric, with wider upper cell, hyaline, guttulate, smooth-walled, sheath present. Anamorph: Not observed.	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
91BBAEBC14E95A8A8846E95E252E2BF2.taxon	description	Culture characteristics. Ascospores germinating on PDA within 12 h, colonies reached 4 cm in diameter after two months at 25 ° C, surface smooth, circular, flat, with entire margin, from above, hyaline to light yellow, from below, dark brown at the centre, hyaline at the margin.	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
E306F86CA8F55F0C99AC553C61B33021.taxon	description	Fig. 2	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
E306F86CA8F55F0C99AC553C61B33021.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The species epithet “ coffeae ” refers to the host plant genus “ Coffea ” from which the fungus was isolated.	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
E306F86CA8F55F0C99AC553C61B33021.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Differs from L. phraeana Jayasiri, E. B. G. Jones & K. D. Hyde, by the brown and large conidia (5 – 6 × 2.5 – 3.5 μm vs. 3 – 4 × 1.5 – 2 μm) and distinct guttules.	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
E306F86CA8F55F0C99AC553C61B33021.taxon	description	Description. Saprobic on decaying branch of C. arabica. Teleomorph: Ascomata 200 – 350 high × 200 – 300 µm diam. (x- = 239 × 273 µm), solitary or scattered, immersed, raised as brown to black spots on the substrate, globose to subglobose, coriaceous, uniloculate with ostioles. Peridium 25 – 35 μm wide (x- = 30 μm, n = 20), thin-walled, composed of dark brown and 2 – 4 layers of textura angularis cells, with the basal part composed of thinner, hyaline, smaller cells. Hamathecium 1.5 – 3.5 µm wide (x- = 2.7 µm, n = 20), dense, comprising numerous pseudoparaphyses, filamentous, hyaline, cellular, branched, with distinct septa. Asci 40 – 80 × 8 – 15 µm (x- = 57 × 9.6 µm, n = 20), 4 – 8 - spored, bitunicate, fissitunicate, cylindrical, long-stalked with club-shape, apically rounded, with a shallow ocular chamber. Ascospores 15 – 25 × 4 – 8 µm (x- = 21 × 6 µm, n = 30), overlapping, uniseriate to biseriate, fusiform to ellipsoidal, straight, hyaline, mainly 1 - septate, sometimes 2 – 3 septate, constricted at the centre septa, conical at both ends, upper cell wider than the lower cell, guttulate, mucilaginous sheath. Anamorph on PDA: Mycelium 1.5 – 2.5 μm broad (x- = 2.2 μm, n = 20), hyaline, septate, branched. Conidia 5 – 6 × 2.5 – 3.5 μm (x- = 5.6 × 3.1 μm, n = 30), ellipsoidal to cylindrical, hyaline when young, brown when mature, thin and smooth-walled, aseptate, with 1 – 2 - guttules.	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
E306F86CA8F55F0C99AC553C61B33021.taxon	description	Culture characteristics. Ascospores germinating on PDA within 24 h. Colonies reached 3.5 cm in diameter after one month at 25 ° C. Colonies circular, slightly fluffy with an entire margin, white; the reverse is white to yellowish. After four months, conidia mass formed as globose to subglobose, dark brown to black spots in culture.	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
E1C6198269555D41ABE1427B40234BF7.taxon	description	Fig. 10	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
E1C6198269555D41ABE1427B40234BF7.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The species epithet “ coffeae ” refers to the host plant genus “ Coffea ” from which the fungus was isolated.	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
E1C6198269555D41ABE1427B40234BF7.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Differs from L. tectonae by the presence of sheath in ascospores.	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
E1C6198269555D41ABE1427B40234BF7.taxon	description	Description. Saprobic on decaying branch of C. arabica. Teleomorph: Ascomata 160 – 280 µm high × 180 – 280 µm diam. (x- = 212 × 238 µm, n = 15), black spots on the substrate, solitary to scattered, immersed to semi-immersed, when cut horizontally, locules visible as white contents, unilocular, globose to subglobose, with central and short ostioles. Peridium 20 – 30 µm thick (x- = 23 µm, n = 15), outer layer consists of 2 – 4 layers of textura angularis, brown and thick-walled cells, inner layer consists of multi-layers of textura angularis, hyaline and thin-walled cells. Hamathecium 2 – 3 µm wide (x- = 2.5 µm, n = 20), numerous, hypha-like, filiform, septate, branched, cellular, pseudoparaphyses, embedded in a gelatinous matrix. Asci 90 – 140 × 20 – 28 µm (x- = 115 × 23 µm, n = 20), bitunicate, 8 - spored, cylindrical to clavate, with a short pedicellate, apically rounded, with an ocular chamber. Ascospores 45 – 55 × 8 – 11 µm (x- = 47 × 9 µm, n = 20), overlapping uniseriate to 3 - seriate, hyaline, fusoid, often enlarged at the fourth cell, with one transverse septum when young, 7 – 8 transverse septa when mature, constricted at the centre septa, slightly constricted at other septa, smooth-walled, sheath present. Anamorph: Not observed.	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
E1C6198269555D41ABE1427B40234BF7.taxon	description	Culture characteristics. Ascospores germinating on PDA within 24 h, colonies reached 4 cm in diameter after one month at 25 ° C, circular, with filiform margin, aerial, medium spare, flat or effuse, from above, hyaline, from below, hyaline to light brown at the centre, hyaline at the edge.	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
34CAA4C4DC5E5F038ACFEF437007DC07.taxon	description	Fig. 4	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
34CAA4C4DC5E5F038ACFEF437007DC07.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The species epithet “ coffeae ” refers to the host plant genus “ Coffea ” from which the fungus was isolated.	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
34CAA4C4DC5E5F038ACFEF437007DC07.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Differs from M. appendiculata (Aptroot) Wanas., E. B. G. Jones & K. D. Hyde, by 6 – 8 - spored asci, differing from M. chromolaenae Mapook & K. D. Hyde, by guttulate ascospores and differing from M. chiangraiensis Mapook & K. D. Hyde, by the presence of appendages on its ascospores.	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
34CAA4C4DC5E5F038ACFEF437007DC07.taxon	description	Description. Saprobic on decaying branch of C. arabica. Teleomorph: Ascomata 120 – 180 µm high × 150 – 220 µm diam. (x- = 150 × 183 µm, n = 15), immersed, separate beneath a clypeus or sometimes gregarious beneath fused clypei, visible as black, solitary or scattered, globose to subglobose, unilocular, black, with ostioles. Ostioles papillate, central. Clypeus brown or sometimes with a halo around the central pore, margin indistinct, consisting of dark, thick-walled hyphae in both epidermal and subepidermal cells. Peridium 7 – 11 µm wide (x- = 8.8 µm, n = 15), fused with host tissue, comprising 2 – 3 layers of pale brown to brown cells of textura prismatica. Hamathecium 3 – 6 µm wide (x- = 4 µm, n = 20) µm wide, branched, hyaline, septate, numerous pseudoparaphyses. Asci 60 – 75 × 6 – 10 µm (x- = 65 × 8.5 µm, n = 20), bitunicate, fissitunicate, 6 – 8 - spored, clavate, long-stalked with club-shape, straight. Ascospores 12 – 16 × 3 – 6 µm (x- = 14 × 4.8 µm, n = 30), hyaline to yellowish when immature, brown to red-brown when mature, overlapping uniseriate or biseriate, fusiform to ellipsoid, 1 - septate, guttulate, constricted at the septum, upper cell wider and shorter than lower cell and tapering towards ends, sheath drawn out to form polar appendages 4 – 9 µm long × 1.5 – 2.5 µm wide (x- = 6 × 1.9 µm, n = 30), from both ends of the ascospores, straight. Anamorph: Not observed.	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
34CAA4C4DC5E5F038ACFEF437007DC07.taxon	description	Culture characteristics. Ascospores germinating on PDA within 24 h, colonies reached 3.5 – 4 cm in diameter after one month at 25 ° C. Colonies on PDA irregular, flat or slightly raised, filamentous, smooth, with undulate margin, from above, hyaline, from below, yellowish at the centre, hyaline at the edge.	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
28F3DF64E5C45242A224BB5340C0CA5D.taxon	description	Fig. 14	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
28F3DF64E5C45242A224BB5340C0CA5D.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The species epithet “ coffeae ” refers to the host plant genus “ Coffea ” from which the fungus was isolated.	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
28F3DF64E5C45242A224BB5340C0CA5D.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Differs from N. fabacearum by having guttulate ascospores with mucilaginous sheath and textura prismatica peridium.	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
28F3DF64E5C45242A224BB5340C0CA5D.taxon	description	Description. Saprobic on a decaying branch of C. arabica. Teleomorph: Ascomata 150 – 220 µm high × 150 – 250 µm diam. (x- = 191 × 210 µm, n = 15), solitary to gregarious, semi-immersed to immersed, coriaceous, visible as black dots on the substrate, unilocular, globose or subglobose, ostioles central. Peridium 10 – 20 µm wide (x- = 14 µm, n = 15), outer walls comprising 3 – 4 layers of textura prismatica cells, brown to dark brown, inner walls thin, hyaline and density. Hamathecium 1.5 – 2.5 µm wide (x- = 2 µm, n = 20), hyaline, filiform, septate, branched, cellular, numerous pseudoparaphyses. Asci 80 – 110 × 10 – 15 µm (x- = 93 × 13 µm, n = 20), 8 - spored, bitunicate, fissitunicate, oblong to cylindrical, straight, sometimes with short pedicellate, with ocular chamber. Ascospores 15 – 18 × 5 – 7 µm (x- = 16.5 × 5.6 µm, n = 30), uniseriate to biseriate, hyaline, yellowish when mature, ellipsoid to broadly fusiform, 1 - septate in the middle, constricted at the septum, guttulate, surrounded by mucilaginous sheath observed clearly when mature. Anamorph: Not observed.	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
28F3DF64E5C45242A224BB5340C0CA5D.taxon	description	Culture characteristics. Ascospore germinating within 24 h on PDA. Colonies reached 4 cm in diameter after two months at 25 ° C. Colonies obverse: circular, flat to slightly raised, fluffy, with filiform margin, white; reverse: brown in centre with yellowish to white edges.	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
F8BBE76F156457E2B0BB2D432791B52B.taxon	description	Fig. 16	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
F8BBE76F156457E2B0BB2D432791B52B.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The species epithet “ coffeae ” refers to the host plant genus “ Coffea ” from which the fungus was isolated.	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
F8BBE76F156457E2B0BB2D432791B52B.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Differs from N. chiangraiensis and N. kaiyangensis X. D. Yu, S. N. Zhang & Jian K. Liu by the greyish-green ascospores.	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
F8BBE76F156457E2B0BB2D432791B52B.taxon	description	Description. Saprobic on decaying branch of C. arabica. Teleomorph: Ascomata 140 – 180 × 200 – 250 µm (x- = 156 × 218 µm, n = 10), superficial to semi-immersed, solitary to gregarious, small, black spots on host surface, unilocular, globose or subglobose, some with ostiolate. Peridium 10 – 20 µm wide (x- = 15 µm, n = 20), outer walls comprising 2 – 4 layers of textura angularis cells, brown to dark brown, inner walls thin, hyaline and density. Hamathecium 2 – 4 µm wide (x- = 3.2 µm, n = 20), hyphae-like, hyaline, filiform, branched, pseudoparaphyses numerous. Asci 100 – 200 × 20 – 30 µm (x- = 156 × 24 µm, n = 20), 8 - spored, bitunicate, cylindrical-clavate, straight, with a short furcate, apically rounded, with an ocular chamber. Ascospores 30 – 40 × 8 – 12 µm (x- = 36.6 × 10.3 µm, n = 50), overlapping biseriate, hyaline when young, greyish-green when mature, fusoid or elliptical, 1 – 3 - septate, guttulate, smooth-walled, mucilaginous sheath present. Anamorph: Not observed.	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
F8BBE76F156457E2B0BB2D432791B52B.taxon	description	Culture characteristics. Ascospores germinating on PDA within 24 h, colonies reached 4 cm in diameter after two months at 25 ° C, mycelia superficial, filamentous, with filiform margin, flat, smooth, from above, brown at the centre, dark brown at the edge, from below, dark brown.	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
A1C979882DA55D04B162A06E676361ED.taxon	description	Fig. 18	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
A1C979882DA55D04B162A06E676361ED.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The species epithet “ coffeae ” refers to the host plant genus “ Coffea ” from which the fungus was isolated.	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
A1C979882DA55D04B162A06E676361ED.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Differs from other Pararoussoella species by the subcylindrical to ellipsoid or, sometimes, ovoid conidia.	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
A1C979882DA55D04B162A06E676361ED.taxon	description	Description. Saprobic on decaying branch of C. arabica. Teleomorph: Not observed. Anamorph: Conidiomata 60 – 120 µm high × 100 – 160 µm diam. (x- = 92 × 121 µm, n = 15), pycnidial, immersed, globose to subglobose, brown, with central ostioles. Conidiomatal wall 15 – 25 µm wide (x- = 19 µm, n = 20), hyaline to light brown, thick, 4 – 6 layers, outer layer composed of brown cells of textura angularis, lined with a hyaline layer bearing conidiogenous cells. Conidiophores inconspicuous or micronematous, often reduced to conidiogenous cells. Conidiogenous cells lining the inner cavity, hyaline, smooth, oval to obpyriform or doliiform, phialidic with periclinal thickening at apex, 3 – 5 × 2 – 5 µm (x- = 4 × 3.5 µm, n = 30). Conidia 3.5 – 5 × 2 – 3 µm (x- = 4.4 × 2.4 µm, n = 30), aseptate, solitary, guttulate, subcylindrical to ellipsoid or, sometimes, ovoid, smooth, apex bluntly rounded, base truncate, hyaline when young, becoming light brown when mature.	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
A1C979882DA55D04B162A06E676361ED.taxon	description	Culture characteristics. Conidia germinating on PDA within 24 h, colonies reached 2.5 – 3 cm in diameter after one month at 25 ° C, filamentous, with entire margin, flat to raised, with many white aerial mycelia, from above, white at the centre, yellowish at the edge, from below, yellowish.	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
84877ED10F98503D88D3B8FDD7CE48E4.taxon	description	Fig. 6	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
84877ED10F98503D88D3B8FDD7CE48E4.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The species epithet “ coffeae ” refers to the host plant genus “ Coffea ” from which the fungus was isolated.	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
84877ED10F98503D88D3B8FDD7CE48E4.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Differs from X. clematidis Phukhams., Camporesi & K. D. Hyde, by shorter ostioles and cylindrical conidia.	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
84877ED10F98503D88D3B8FDD7CE48E4.taxon	description	Description. Saprobic on decaying branch of C. arabica. Teleomorph: Not observed. Anamorph: Conidiomata 50 – 80 µm high × 50 – 90 µm diam. (x- = 62 × 70 µm, n = 20), separate or scattered, semi-immersed, black, globose to subglobose or pyriform, pycnidial, with short ostioles. Conidiomatal wall 6 – 12 µm wide (x- = 9 µm, n = 30), composed of 1 – 3 layers of light brown to brown cells of textura angularis, heavily pigmented at the outer layers, lined with a hyaline layer bearing conidiogenous cells. Conidiophores inconspicuous or micronematous, often reduced to conidiogenous cells. Conidiogenous cells lining inner cavity, 4 – 6 × 4 – 7 µm (x- = 5.3 × 5.4 µm, n = 30), hyaline, globose to ampulliform, enteroblastic, phialidic. Conidia 10 – 15 × 3 – 4 µm (x- = 12 × 3.3 µm, n = 30), solitary, hyaline, oblong to cylindrical with rounded ends, aseptate, mostly straight, surface smooth or rough.	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
84877ED10F98503D88D3B8FDD7CE48E4.taxon	description	Culture characteristics. Conidia germinating on PDA within 24 h, colonies reached 6 cm in diameter after two months at 25 ° C, filamentous, filiform margin, smooth, flat, with aerial mycelium, from above, brown at the centre, dark brown at the edge, from below, dark brown to black.	en	Lu, Li, Karunarathna, Samantha C., Rajeshkumar, Kunhiraman C., Elgorban, Abdallah M., Jayawardena, Ruvishika S., Hongsanan, Sinang, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xiong, Yin-Ru, Hyde, Kevin D., Han, Mei-Yan, Zheng, De-Ge, Li, Qiang, Dai, Dong-Qin, Tibpromma, Saowaluck (2025): Unveiling fungal diversity associated with coffee trees in China using a polyphasic approach and a global review of coffee saprobic fungi. IMA Fungus 16: e 144874, DOI: 10.3897/imafungus.16.144874
