Neopyrenochaeta shaoguanica YR. Xiong, B. Xu & Manawas., sp. Nov.
MycoBank number: MB 559352; Index Fungorum number: IF 559352; Facesoffungi number: FoF 10611;
Etymology: Refers to the name of sampling location, Shaoguan Genitive epithet meaning “of shaoguanica”.
Holotype: ZHKU 21-0009
Saprobic on dead branch in shaoguan city. Sexual morph: Undetermined. Asexual morph: Conidiostromata 350–460 μm long, 490–760 μm wide (x = 380 × 600 μm, n=10), gregarious, fissural, coriaceous, multilocular, black. Conidiomata 210–275 μm high, 150–205 μm diam (x = 235 × 180 μm, n=10), loculate; locules arranged by clustered, gregarious, with 3–7 locules forming groups immersed in conidiostroma, globose to subglobose. Peridium multi-layered, inner layer 25–45 μm wide, composed of dark-brown, thin-walled cells of textura angularis, with outer wall of lighter brown with textura angularis. Conidiophores with conidiogenous cells 25–40 × 2−3 μm, long, cylindrical, branched, hyaline to pale brown, thin-walled, microtubule in the top, spores are released from it one by one. Conidia 3–3.5 × 2 – 2.5 μm (x = 3.1 × 2.2 μm, n=50), one-celled, hyaline, clavate or ellipsoidal to cylindrical, accumulation cumulate, straight, smooth- to thin-walled.
Culture characteristics – Colonies on PDA reaching 6 cm diameter after 7 days at 25 °C, light brown from above, pale brown from below, failamentous, nmbonate, entire margin.
Material examined – China, Guangdong Province, shaoguan, isolated from dead wood, 11 November 2020, YR. Xiong & B. Xu (ZHKU 21-0009, holotype); living culture, ZHKUCC 21-0119.
Fig. ** Neopyrenochaeta shaoguanica (ZHKUCC 21-0119, holotype) a–c. Appearance of stromata on dead wood. d. Section through stroma. e. locule. f. Peridium. g–h. Conidiogenous cells and Conidiogenesis. i–m. Conidia. n. Germinating conidia. o, p. Culture characters on PDA (o: Above view; p: Reverse view).