Sungia Luangsa-ard, Samson & Thanakitpipattana, gen. nov.
Index Fungorum number: MB 834909; Facesoffungi number: FoF14497
Etymology: Named after Prof. Jae-Mo Sung in recognition for his work on entomopathogenic fungi in South Korea.
Description: Stromata erect, cylindrical to clavate, robust, multi- ple, predominantly branched or simple, gregarious, on large Lepidoptera pupa. Fertile part white to pale yellow, not differ- entiated from stipe. Perithecia fusiform to clavate, oblique in arrangement, immersed, loosely scattered or crowded. Asci 8- spored, hyaline, cylindrical with a prominent cap. Ascospores
filiform, hyaline, multi-septate, whole. Conidiophores erect with solitary, awl-shaped phialides, pochonia-like. Conidia in slimy
heads, elliptical to oblong, hyaline. Chlamydospores present, cylindrical to subglobose, submerged in agar.
Type species: Sungia yongmunensis (G.H. Sung et al.) Samson, Luangsa-ard & Thanakipipattana.
Notes: – This genus is phylogenetically close to Yosiokobayasia. Both genera produce pallid stromata – white to pale yellow in Sungia and white in Yosiokobayasia which is not observed in any sexual morph of Metarhizium.
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