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            <p> Diaporthe litseae Y.R. Sun, Yong Wang bis &amp; K.D. Hyde,  sp. nov.</p>
            <p>Index Fungorum number: IF902549; Facesoffungi number: FoF 16399</p>
            <p>Etymology: referring to the host genus.</p>
            <p> Holotype: HGUP 24-0011</p>
            <p> Endophytic on healthy leaves of  Litsea kobuskiana . Sexual morph: Not observed. Asexual morph: Conidiomata superficial, solitary, scattered on the pine needle in the WA, dark brown to black, globose. Conidiophores 1–2 µm wide, aseptate, cylindrical, straight or sinuous, densely aggregated, terminal. Conidiogenous cells phialidic, cylindrical. Alpha  conidia 5–9 × 2–3.5 μm (= 7 × 2.5 μm, n = 40), fusiform, hyaline, aseptate, 4–5-guttulate, both ends obtuse.  Beta conidia not observed. </p>
            <p> Material examined:   China, Guizhou Province, Anshun City, Xixiu District,  
Yaowang 
Valley
Tourism Resort
 , on heathy leaves of  Litsea kobuskiana , 3 August 2022, Y. R. Sun, MJZY1-1 (HGUP 24-0011, holotype)  ;  ex-type living culture GUCC 23-0022 ;   ibid, on heathy leaves of  Litsea kobuskiana , 3 August 2022, Y. R. Sun, MJZY1 (HGUP 23- 0008, living culture GUCC 24-0055)  . </p>
            <p> Notes: BLASTn searches of the ITS sequence of  Diaporthe litseae resulted in 97.6% similarity with  D.citrichinensis (synonym:  D. ukurunduensis ) (W2). The BLASTn results of cal and tef1-α are 92.26% and 88.85% similar to  D. citri (SICAUCC 22-0129) and  D. citri (ZGPF1), respectively. The multi-gene analyses showed  D. litseae is close to  D. citri and forms a sister clade to the  D. citrichinensis species complex (Fig. 1). In morphology,  Diaporthe litseae differs from  D. citri by its fusiform, 4–5-guttulate, smaller and thinner alpha conidia (7 × 2.5 μm vs. 8.5 × 3.7 μm, L/W: 2.8 vs. 2.3) while the latter has ovate to ellipsoidal, 1–2 guttules alpha conidia (Udayanga et al. 2014b; Hongsanan et al. 2023). Therefore, we introduce  D. litseae as a novel species and not belonging to any species complex following the recent literature (Jeewon &amp; Hyde 2016; Jayawardena et al. 2021; Dissanayake et al. 2024). </p>
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	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7A0987FCFFF8FFBAFF57FF5D7389FB8F	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Plazi	Sun, Ya-Ru;Liu, Ning-Guo;Al-Otibi, Fatimah O.;Hyde, Kevin D.;Wang, Yong;Jayawardena, Ruvishika S.	Sun, Ya-Ru, Liu, Ning-Guo, Al-Otibi, Fatimah O., Hyde, Kevin D., Wang, Yong, Jayawardena, Ruvishika S. (2024): A new endophytic species, Diaporthe litseae, from medicinal plants in Guizhou Province, China. Phytotaxa 665 (3): 243-252, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.665.3.6, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.665.3.6
