Pseudocanariomyces Can˜ete-Gibas, Wiederhold, Sanders, Ryan & Sosa gen. nov.
MycoBank number: MB 838914; Index Fungorum number: IF 838914; Facesoffungi number: FoF;
Etymology: Refers to its morphological resemblance to the genus Canariomyces.
Description: —Ascomata cleistothecial, solitary, globose to subglobose, ascomatal wall semitranslucent to brown, with textura angularis and textura epidermoidea. Asci 8-spored, evanescent, globose to pyriform, with no visible stalk. Ascospores one-celled, ellipsoidal to fusiform, smooth and dark brown with distinct germ pore. Conidia sessile, chrysosporium- like, laterally produced on aerial, subhyaline to pigmented hyphae, obovoid to clavate.
Type species: Pseudocanariomyces americanus Can˜ete-Gibas, Wiederhold, Sanders, Ryan & Sosa.
Notes: – This genus is morphologically indistin- guishable from the species of Canariomyces and Stolonocarpus, but can be phylogenetically defined by ITS, TUB2 and RPB2 markers (Fig. 1).
Fig. 1 Maximum likelihood tree based on ITS, LSU, TUB2 and RPB2 nucleotide sequences of Pseudocanariomyces americanus and related taxa in the Chaetomiaceae. Posterior probabilities (C 0.95, left) and bootstrap values (80–100%, right) are shown on the nodes. T = type strain. CBS = CBS culture collection housed at the Westerdijk Institute, Utrecht, The Netherlands. UTHSCSA = University of Texas Health at San Antonio, Texas, United States
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