Symmetrospora rhododendri Q.M. Wang, F.Y. Bai & A.H. Li sp. nov. 2020
MycoBank MB 828821
Holotype: China, Lulang county, Tibet, obtained from a leaf of Rhododendron sp., Sep. 2004, F.-Y. Bai (holotype CGMCC 2.2613T preserved in a metabolically inactive state, ex-type CBS 15447 = XZ49DX).
Morphological description
Culture characteristics: In YM broth, after 7 d at 17 °C, cells are cylindrical and ellipsoidal, 3.4–4.7 × 6.6–9.4 μm and single, budding is polar (Fig. 15K), a sediment is formed. After 1 mo at 17 °C, a part ring and sediment are present. On YM agar, after 1 mo at 17 °C, the streak culture is pinkish orange, butyrous, slight wrinkled and glossy. The margin is entire. In Dalmau plate culture on corn meal agar, pseudohyphae are not formed. Sexual structures are not observed on YM, PDA, V8 and CM agar.
Ballistoconidia are ellipsoidal to long ovoid, 1.7–3.6 × 5.0–7.1 μm (Fig. 15L).
Habitat: a leaf of Rhododendron sp.
Distribution: Lulang county, Tibet, China.
GenBank Accession: 18S+ITS+D1/D2 MK050388; RPB1 MK849130; RPB2 MK849271; EF1 MK849001
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Reference: A.-H. Li1,2, F.-X. Yuan1,3, M. Groenewald4 et al.
