Kevinia Rajeshk., Verma R., Wijayaw., Karun. & Tibpromma, gen. nov.
Index Fungorum number: IF 559647; MycoBank number: MB 559647; Facesoffungi number: FoF 10829
Etymology: – Named after Prof. Kevin D. Hyde for his contributions to the fungal diversity of Asia.
Saprobic on the surface of decaying branches. Sexual morph: Undetermined. Asexual morph: hyphomyceteous. Conidiophores reduced to conidiogeneous cells. Conidiogenous cells macronematous, mononematous, erect, ampulliform, wider base, smooth, unbranched or rarely branched. Conidia holoblastic, monoblastic, digitate or irregular, dictyosporous, brown to dark-brown, smooth to slightly roughened, euseptate, base truncate.
Type species – Kevinia lignicola Rajeshk., Verma R., Wijayaw., Karun. & Tibpromma
Notes – The nucleotide BLAST results of ITS, LSU and tef1-α sequences of our collection (AMH 10455) revealed the closest matches as species in Neomultiseptospora, Neoaquastroma, Monodictys, Parabambusicola and Pseudomonodictys. In the phylogenetic analyses (Fig. 1), our collection (AMH 10455) clustered with species in Neoaquastroma with ML/BI=72/0.88 statistical support. Neoaquastroma is characterized by immersed, globose to subglobose or irregular-shaped ascomata, short papillate ostioles, a thin peridium, clavate asci with short pedicels, and multi-septate, hyaline ascospores with guttules in each cell.
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