Azygosporus parvus – Facesoffungi number: FoF 13357

Azygosporus parvus (Drechsler) B. Huang & Y. Nie, comb. nov.

MycoBank number: MB 840850; Index Fungorum number: IF 840850; Facesoffungi number: FoF;

Conidiobolus parvus Drechsler, Bull. Torrey bot. Club 89: 233 (1962) Basionym.

Description. Refer to Drechsler (1962).

Host and distribution. Isolated from decaying leaves in Maryland, United States.

Notes. The ex-type living culture is ATCC 14634 (United States, Maryland, Cumber- land, 4 November 1962, Drechsler). It was reported to produce azygospores in Conidiobolus (King 1977); therefore, we recognize it as the type species of the genus Azygosporus gen. nov.