taxonID	type	description	language	source
752487C2880A7F162BA2B2BFEF86398C.taxon	materials_examined	Holotype: — CHINA. Guizhou: Zunyi, Dabanshui Mountain (106.807671, 27.779294), on larvae of Lepidoptera in soil, 21 July 2024, Shi-Ke Huang (HKAS 145947, holotype); ex-type living culture (KUNCC 25 - 19105). Additional culture also isolated (KUNCC 25 - 19106).	en	Huang, Shike, Xiao, Zhongjiu, Yang, Yang, Zhang, He-Gui, Gui, Qiang, Kang, Ji-Chuan, Wen, Tingchi (2025): A novel species of Blackwellomyces in Guizhou, China. Phytotaxa 691 (2): 113-124, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.691.2.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.691.2.1
752487C2880A7F162BA2B2BFEF86398C.taxon	etymology	Etymology: — referring to the fungus occurring on insect larvae.	en	Huang, Shike, Xiao, Zhongjiu, Yang, Yang, Zhang, He-Gui, Gui, Qiang, Kang, Ji-Chuan, Wen, Tingchi (2025): A novel species of Blackwellomyces in Guizhou, China. Phytotaxa 691 (2): 113-124, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.691.2.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.691.2.1
752487C2880A7F162BA2B2BFEF86398C.taxon	description	Description: — Sexual morph: Stromata multiple, fleshly, unbranched, about 10 mm long and 1 mm wide, reddish to orange-red, cylindrical. Rhizoids flexuous, emerging from the head and base of lepidoptera larva in soil. Stipe flesh, reddish to orange-red, cylindrical to enlarging apically. Fertile area bright reddish to reddish orange, clavate, irregularly distributed at the apex, with the longer side measuring about 4 mm and the shorter side about 1.5 mm in length, 0.6 – 1 mm in width. Perithecia 210 – 340 × 90 – 160 μm (x ̄ = 265 × 125 μm, n = 30), semi-immersed, narrowly ovoid to ampulliform, thick-walled, with ostiole on the top. Peridium 20 – 38 μm (x ̄ = 25 μm, n = 50), comprising two layers, inner layer composed of hyaline to pale orange cells of textura porrecta, outer layer composed of yellow to orange cells of textura angularis. Asci 8 - spored, cylindrical, 95 – 125 × 3.6 – 6 μm (x ̄ = 110 × 4.5 μm, n = 50), with a thick hemispheric apex. Ascospores filiform, hyaline, irregularly multiseptate, 75 – 95 × 0.7 – 1.2 μm (x ̄ = 80 × 1.0 μm, n = 50), not separating into part-spores when they reach maturity. Asexual morph: Colonies white to purplish red on PDA, cottony with dense mycelium, 20 mm diameter after 10 days at 25 ℃, purplish pigment spreading in PDA. Phialides arising from aerial hyphae, solitary or in whorls of 2 – 3 on each branch, cylindrical, sometimes swollen at the base, about 10 μm long and 2 μm wide, tapering from the base to thin neck. Conidia hyaline, ovoid to cylindrical, smooth-walled, one-celled, 3.5 – 5.5 × 1.5 – 2.5 μm (x ̄ = 4.5 – 2 μm, n = 50). Morphological distinguishing features of all Blackwellomyces species are listed in Table 2 and are highlighted in the Discussion. ...... continued on the next page	en	Huang, Shike, Xiao, Zhongjiu, Yang, Yang, Zhang, He-Gui, Gui, Qiang, Kang, Ji-Chuan, Wen, Tingchi (2025): A novel species of Blackwellomyces in Guizhou, China. Phytotaxa 691 (2): 113-124, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.691.2.1, URL: https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.691.2.1
