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DA385709EADA5F489F4A3A1EDE32B56F.text	DA385709EADA5F489F4A3A1EDE32B56F.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Torula chinensis W. H. Tian, Y. P. Chen & Maharachch.	<div><p>Torula chinensis W. H. Tian, Y. P. Chen &amp; Maharachch., J. Fungi 9 (2, no. 150): 4 (2023)</p><p>Fig. 2</p><p>= Torula phytolaccae Y. X. Li, C. F. Liao &amp; Doilom, Phytotaxa 584 (1): 9 (2023)</p><p>Description.</p><p>Saprobic on dead branches of Phytolacca americana L. ( Phytolaccaceae). Sexual morph: Undetermined. Asexual morph: Hyphomycetous. Colonies effuse on the natural substrate, dense, velvety, scattered, hairy, dark brown to black, dry. Mycelium immersed to superficial on the substrate, septate, branched, smooth to minutely verruculose, brown. Conidiophores 10–28 × 3–6 μm (x ̄ = 20 × 5 μm, n = 20), micronematous to semi-macronematous, mononematous, flexuous, unbranched, verruculose, thick-walled, doliiform to subcylindrical, consisting of 1–3 cells or reduced to conidiogenous cells, smooth, straight, or slightly flexuous, pale brown to brown. Conidiogenous cells 4–7 × 5–8 μm (x ̄ = 5 × 5.5 μm, n = 20), mono- or polyblastic, integrated, lateral to terminal, dark brown to black, verruculose, thick-walled, doliiform to cupulate. Conidia (16 –) 22–35 (– 65) × 5–9 μm (x ̄ = 29 × 7 μm, n = 30), solitary to catenate, acrogenous, simple, phragmosporous, straight or slightly curved, dark brown to black, verrucose, predominantly 3–5 - septate, rounded at both ends, mostly subcylindrical, composed of subglobose cells, thick-walled, constricted at the septa, subhyaline to pale brown at the apex.</p><p>Culture characteristics.</p><p>Conidia germinated on the PDA within 24 h, and germ tubes are produced from the basal cells. Colonies growing on PDA reached 30–33 mm in diam. after three weeks at 25 ° C in the dark. Colonies from above are medium dense, regular, white aerial mycelium slightly raised, fluffy, filiform, pale greenish-grey in the center, white hairy at the margin; in reverse, pale yellow at the center, off-white at the margin, the color gradually lightens from the center to the edge, without pigment produced in PDA.</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>China • Guizhou Province, Guiyang City, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=106.65639&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=26.511389" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 106.65639/lat 26.511389)">Huaxi District</a>, 26°30'41"N, 106°39'23"E, elevation 1,126 m, on dead branches of Phytolacca americana ( Phytolaccaceae), 24 January 2021, Hong-Zhi Du, S 62 (HUEST 24.0247), living culture UESTCC 24.0234 .</p><p>Notes.</p><p>Torula chinensis was introduced by Tian et al. (2023) from unidentified dead woody substrates and formally published on 22 January 2023. Around the same time, T. phytolaccae was described by Li et al. (2023) from dead stems of Phytolacca acinosa and published on 9 February 2023. In our phylogenetic tree (Fig. 1), our collection (UESTCC 24.0234) and T. phytolaccae (ZHKUCC 22-0107 and ZHKUCC 23-0884) clustered together with the ex-type strain (UESTCC 22.0085) of T. chinensis . Comparisons of nucleotides between T. chinensis (UESTCC 22.0085) and T. phytolaccae (ZHKUCC 22-0107, ex-type strain) showed 100 % similarity (534 / 534 bp, without gaps) in ITS, 99.9 % (803 / 804 bp, without gaps) in LSU, and 99.4 % (810 / 815 bp, without gaps) in SSU. Additionally, our collection (UESTCC 24.0234) shows 100 % similarity to T. chinensis in the ITS, LSU, and SSU gene regions. Therefore, following the guidelines of Jeewon and Hyde (2016), we synonymized T. phytolaccae under T. chinensis, identified our collection as T. chinensis, and reported it as a new host record from the medicinal plant Phytolacca americana in Guizhou Province, China.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/DA385709EADA5F489F4A3A1EDE32B56F	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Wu, Na;Chi, Mei-Feng;Du, Hong-Zhi;Chethana, K. W. Thilini;Khongphinitbunjong, Kitiphong;Chen, Ya-Ya;Hyde, Kevin D.;Al-Otibi, Fatimah;Dissanayake, Asha J.;Liu, Jian-Kui	Wu, Na, Chi, Mei-Feng, Du, Hong-Zhi, Chethana, K. W. Thilini, Khongphinitbunjong, Kitiphong, Chen, Ya-Ya, Hyde, Kevin D., Al-Otibi, Fatimah, Dissanayake, Asha J., Liu, Jian-Kui (2025): Morpho-phylogenetic evidence reveals novel species and new records of Torula (Torulaceae, Pleosporales) from medicinal plants in China. MycoKeys 122: 169-196, DOI: 10.3897/mycokeys.122.161816
1C1C951EA88C5EE4A7406CE072CB640B.text	1C1C951EA88C5EE4A7406CE072CB640B.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Torula dispora H. Z. Du, N. Wu, K. D. Hyde & Jian K. Liu 2025	<div><p>Torula dispora H. Z. Du, N. Wu, K. D. Hyde &amp; Jian K. Liu sp. nov.</p><p>Fig. 3</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The epithet ‘ dispora ’ refers to the host genus Disporum from which the fungus was originally isolated.</p><p>Holotype.</p><p>HKAS 132495</p><p>Description.</p><p>Saprobic on dead twigs of Disporum cantoniense (Loureiro) Merrill ( Liliaceae). Sexual morph: Undetermined. Asexual morph: Hyphomycetous. Colonies effuse on the natural substrate, scattered, hairy, dark brown to black, dry. Mycelium mostly immersed, hyaline, septate, branched hyphae. Conidiophores 15–40 × 4–6 μm (x ̄ = 32 × 5 μm, n = 20), micronematous to semi-macronematous, subcylindrical, erect, septate, smooth, straight, or slightly flexuous, brown to dark brown. Conidiogenous cells 5–8 × 4–5 μm (x ̄ = 7 × 4.5 μm, n = 20), monoblastic, integrated, terminal, subglobose or spherical to coronal, brown to dark brown. Conidia two types; short conidia 16–35 × 5–9 μm (x ̄ = 27 × 7 μm, n = 30), acrogenous, phragmosporous, branched in chains with subglobose cells, dry, brown to dark brown, subhyaline at the terminal cell, 4–9 - septate, constricted at septa, and the central cells larger than end cells, verrucose, easily separating, with spinulose on the substrate; long conidia 178–389 × 4–6 μm (x ̄ = 256 × 5 μm, n = 30), acrogenous, phragmosporous, dry, straight to flexuous, pale brown to brown, terminal cell subhyaline, 20–40 - septate, constricted at septa, verrucose, easily separating, fusiform to ellipsoidal cells and uniform in size.</p><p>Culture characteristics.</p><p>Conidia germinated on the PDA within 24 h, and germ tubes are produced from the basal cell. Colonies growing on PDA reached 45–48 mm in diam. after three weeks at 25 ° C in the dark. Colonies from above irregular, mycelium slightly raised, fluffy, filiform, white aerial hyphae at the surface, spreading from the center, and hyaline mycelium at the edge; in reverse, brown to dark-brown in the center, with grayish white at the edge, the color gradually lightens from the center to the edge.</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>China • Sichuan Province, Chengdu City, Dujiangyan City, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=103.47667&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=30.919167" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 103.47667/lat 30.919167)">Qingcheng Mountain scenic spot</a>, 30°55'9"N, 103°28'36"E, elevation 1,185 m, on dead twigs of Disporum cantoniense ( Liliaceae), 27 March 2021, H. Z. Du, S 173 (HKAS 132495, holotype), ex-type living culture CGMCC 3.27461 ; • ibid., S 82 (HUEST 23.0504), living culture UESTCC 23.0503 .</p><p>Notes.</p><p>Multi-locus phylogeny (Fig. 1) showed that Torula dispora (CGMCC 3.27461 and UESTCC 23.0503) clustered together with T. longiconidiophora (CGMCC 3.24283) and T. sundara (MFLUCC 21-0067) with high support (99 % MLBS / 1.00 BIPP), forming a distinct lineage. Morphologically, T. dispora (HKAS 132495, holotype) is similar to T. longiconidiophora and T. sundara in having micronematous to semi-macronematous conidiophores, terminal, subglobose or spherical to coronal conidiogenous cells, and two types of conidia (short and long) forming in chains (Jayawardena et al. 2022; Tian et al. 2023). However, T. dispora (HKAS 132495, holotype) can be distinguished from T. longiconidiophora and T. sundara by the spinulose characteristics on the conidial substrate (Jayawardena et al. 2022; Tian et al. 2023). In addition, T. dispora differs from T. sundara by its smaller short-type conidia (16–35 × 5–9 μm vs. 41–60 × 9–15 μm) and fewer septa in conidia (20–40 vs. up to 50) (Jayawardena et al. 2022). The nucleotide base pair comparison between T. dispora (CGMCC 3.27461, ex-type strain) and T. sundara (KUNCC 22-12399) revealed 10 / 509 bp (2.0 %, 2 gaps) in ITS, 16 / 900 bp (1.8 %, 4 gaps) in tef 1 - α, and 24 / 885 bp (2.7 %, without gaps) in rpb 2 differences (He et al. 2024), while T. dispora (CGMCC 3.27461) can be distinguished from T. longiconidiophora (CGMCC 3.24283, ex-type strain) by 11 / 519 bp (2.1 %, 3 gaps) in ITS and 33 / 982 bp (3.3 %, without gaps) in rpb 2 sequence data (Tian et al. 2023). Therefore, based on the morphological and phylogenetic evidence (Jeewon and Hyde 2016), T. dispora, associated with the medicinal plant Disporum cantoniense, is introduced as a new species from Sichuan Province, China.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/1C1C951EA88C5EE4A7406CE072CB640B	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Wu, Na;Chi, Mei-Feng;Du, Hong-Zhi;Chethana, K. W. Thilini;Khongphinitbunjong, Kitiphong;Chen, Ya-Ya;Hyde, Kevin D.;Al-Otibi, Fatimah;Dissanayake, Asha J.;Liu, Jian-Kui	Wu, Na, Chi, Mei-Feng, Du, Hong-Zhi, Chethana, K. W. Thilini, Khongphinitbunjong, Kitiphong, Chen, Ya-Ya, Hyde, Kevin D., Al-Otibi, Fatimah, Dissanayake, Asha J., Liu, Jian-Kui (2025): Morpho-phylogenetic evidence reveals novel species and new records of Torula (Torulaceae, Pleosporales) from medicinal plants in China. MycoKeys 122: 169-196, DOI: 10.3897/mycokeys.122.161816
A843FAF5676E513096D394995D4AAF3A.text	A843FAF5676E513096D394995D4AAF3A.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Torula fici Crous	<div><p>Torula fici Crous [as ‘ficus’], IMA Fungus 6 (1): 192 (2015)</p><p>Fig. 4</p><p>Description.</p><p>Saprobic on the dead vines of Lonicera japonica Thunb. ( Caprifoliaceae). Sexual morph: Undetermined. Asexual morph: Hyphomycetous. Colonies effuse on the natural substrate, scattered, black, clustered on substrates. Mycelium slightly immersed, septate, branched, smooth, with pale brown hyphae. Conidiophores arising from prostrate hypha, 4–6 μm wide, macronematous to semi-macronematous, mononematous, solitary, erect, thick-walled, erect, straight, or slightly flexuous, without apical branches, pale brown to brown, ellipsoid to subcylindrical, smooth, septate. Conidiogenous cells 5.5–6.5 × 4.8–5.5 μm (x ̄ = 6 × 5 μm, n = 20), mono- to polyblastic, integrated, terminal, thick-walled, doliiform to subglobose, brown to dark brown. Conidia 8–19 × 5–7 μm (x ̄ = 15 × 6 μm, n = 30) phragmosporous, solitary to catenate, acrogenous, pale brown, aseptate or indistinctly septate at immature stage, becoming brown to dark brown at maturity, composed of subglobose cells, apical cell often pale brown, rounded at both ends, mostly 2–4 - septate, constricted at the septa, minutely verruculose, easily separating.</p><p>Culture characteristics.</p><p>Conidia germinated on the PDA within 24 h, and germ tubes are produced from the basal cell. Colonies growing on PDA reached 35–40 mm in diam. after three weeks at 25 ° C in the dark, mycelium partly immersed to superficial, slightly effuse, hairy, with a regular edge, pink or pale brown. Colonies from above, circular with an irregular edge, white aerial mycelium slightly raised, medium dense, fluffy, filiform, spreading from the center, and hyaline mycelium at the edge; in reverse, pale brown to brown in the center, with off-white at the edge.</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>China • Sichuan Province, Chengdu City, Xindu District, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=104.08028&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=30.8475" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 104.08028/lat 30.8475)">Xinfan Street</a>, 30°50'51"N, 104°4'49"E, elevation 549 m, on dead vines of Lonicera japonica ( Caprifoliaceae), 22 July 2021, H. Z. Du, D 10 (HUEST 24.0248), living culture UESTCC 24.0235 .</p><p>Notes.</p><p>Torula fici was introduced by Crous et al. (2015) as a hyphomycetous asexual morph species found on Ficus religiosa in Cuba. It is a widespread species, mostly reported in China and Thailand, and has been collected from various hosts, including Ananas comosus, Chromolaena odorata, Cocos nucifera, Garcinia sp., Magnolia grandiflora, Mangifera indica, Musa sp., and Pandanus sp. (Jayasiri et al. 2019; Jayawardena et al. 2022; Tian et al. 2024; Zhang et al. 2024 b). Based on the phylogenetic analysis (Fig. 1), our collection (UESTCC 24.0235) clustered with T. fici (CBS 595.96, KUMCC 16-0038, KUMCC 15-0428, and UESTCC 22.0124). The morphology of our collection matches well with the type material of T. fici, which is characterized by doliiform to subglobose or clavate conidiogenous cells and brown to dark brown, phragmosporous, verruculose, branched chains and septate conidia (Crous et al. 2015). Therefore, we identified our new collection as T. fici and reported its association with the medicinal plant Lonicera japonica in Sichuan Province, China, for the first time.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/A843FAF5676E513096D394995D4AAF3A	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Wu, Na;Chi, Mei-Feng;Du, Hong-Zhi;Chethana, K. W. Thilini;Khongphinitbunjong, Kitiphong;Chen, Ya-Ya;Hyde, Kevin D.;Al-Otibi, Fatimah;Dissanayake, Asha J.;Liu, Jian-Kui	Wu, Na, Chi, Mei-Feng, Du, Hong-Zhi, Chethana, K. W. Thilini, Khongphinitbunjong, Kitiphong, Chen, Ya-Ya, Hyde, Kevin D., Al-Otibi, Fatimah, Dissanayake, Asha J., Liu, Jian-Kui (2025): Morpho-phylogenetic evidence reveals novel species and new records of Torula (Torulaceae, Pleosporales) from medicinal plants in China. MycoKeys 122: 169-196, DOI: 10.3897/mycokeys.122.161816
51B782E9FDFB54FAAB70DB23C38648CE.text	51B782E9FDFB54FAAB70DB23C38648CE.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Torula masonii P. W. Crous	<div><p>Torula masonii P. W. Crous, IMA Fungus 6 (1): 192 (2015)</p><p>Fig. 5</p><p>Description.</p><p>Saprobic on dead branches of Gardenia jasminoides J. Ellis ( Rubiaceae). Sexual morph: Undetermined. Asexual morph: Hyphomycetous. Colonies effuse on the natural substrate, scattered, hairy, velvety, dark brown to black. Mycelium immersed or superficial, composed of septate, branched, dark brown to black hyphae. Conidiophores 2–4 µm wide, macronematous to semi-macronematous, septate, erect, straight or slightly flexuous, brown to dark brown, subcylindrical to subglobose, thick-walled, with 1–2 doliiform to globose cells. Conidiogenous cells 6–9 × 5–8 µm (x ̄ = 7.5 × 6.5 μm, n = 20), polyblastic, terminal or intercalary, dark brown to black, doliiform to subglobose, smooth to verruculose, thick-walled. Conidia 20–60 × 4–9 μm (x ̄ = 36 × 6 μm, n = 30), phragmosporous, catenated, acrogenous, minutely verruculose, rounded at both ends, composed of subglobose cells, dark brown to black, 1–2 smaller cells at the apex, 3–18 - septate, easily separating, slightly constricted at some septa, and chiefly subcylindrical.</p><p>Culture characteristics.</p><p>Conidia germinated on the PDA within 24 h, and germ tubes are produced from the basal cell. Colonies growing on PDA reached 33–35 mm in diam. after three weeks at 25 ° C in the dark. Colonies from above medium dense, regular, white aerial mycelium slightly raised, fluffy, filiform. In reverse, greenish-grey in the center, off-white ring at the margin, without pigments produced in PDA.</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>China • Sichuan Province, Guangyuan City, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=105.9775&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=32.693058" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 105.9775/lat 32.693058)">Qingquan Town</a>, 32°41'35"N, 105°58'39"E, elevation 817 m, on dead branches of Gardenia jasminoides ( Rubiaceae). 20 April 2021, H. Z. Du, L 2092 (GZAAS 25-0020), living culture GZCC 25-0020 .</p><p>Notes.</p><p>Crous et al. (2015) introduced Torula masonii, which was collected from Brassica sp. in the UK. Subsequently, Li et al. (2017) and Su et al. (2018) recollected and described T. masonii from Iris germanica in Italy and submerged decaying wood in China, respectively. In this study, multi-locus phylogenetic analysis showed that our isolate (GZCC 25-0020) clustered together with T. masonii ex-type (CBS 245.57) with 87 % MLBS and 0.98 BIPP support (Fig. 1). Additionally, our collection (GZAAS 25-0020) shows similar morphological characteristics to T. masonii (CBS H-22278). Therefore, we identified our new collection as T. masonii, which is associated with the medicinal plant Gardenia jasminoides in Sichuan Province, China.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/51B782E9FDFB54FAAB70DB23C38648CE	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Wu, Na;Chi, Mei-Feng;Du, Hong-Zhi;Chethana, K. W. Thilini;Khongphinitbunjong, Kitiphong;Chen, Ya-Ya;Hyde, Kevin D.;Al-Otibi, Fatimah;Dissanayake, Asha J.;Liu, Jian-Kui	Wu, Na, Chi, Mei-Feng, Du, Hong-Zhi, Chethana, K. W. Thilini, Khongphinitbunjong, Kitiphong, Chen, Ya-Ya, Hyde, Kevin D., Al-Otibi, Fatimah, Dissanayake, Asha J., Liu, Jian-Kui (2025): Morpho-phylogenetic evidence reveals novel species and new records of Torula (Torulaceae, Pleosporales) from medicinal plants in China. MycoKeys 122: 169-196, DOI: 10.3897/mycokeys.122.161816
DFB4D39674D752D387DEADB1E26242EB.text	DFB4D39674D752D387DEADB1E26242EB.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Torula strychnicola H. Z. Du, N. Wu, K. D. Hyde & Jian K. Liu 2025	<div><p>Torula strychnicola H. Z. Du, N. Wu, K. D. Hyde &amp; Jian K. Liu sp. nov.</p><p>Fig. 6</p><p>Etymology.</p><p>The epithet ‘ strychnicola ’ refers to the host genus Strychnos from which the fungus was originally isolated.</p><p>Holotype.</p><p>HKAS 139505</p><p>Description.</p><p>Saprobic on dead branches of medicinal plant Strychnos nux-vomica L. ( Loganiaceae). Sexual morph: Undetermined. Asexual morph: Hyphomycetous. Colonies effuse on the natural substrate, sparse, hairy, velvety, dark brown to black on the substrate. Mycelium immersed or superficial, composed of septate, branched, dark brown to black hyphae. Conidiophores 2–4 µm wide, macronematous to semi-macronematous, erect, septate, smooth, straight, or slightly flexuous, brown to dark brown, subcylindrical to subglobose, and thick-walled, with 1–2 doliiform to globose cells. Conidiogenous cells 4–6 × 3–5 μm (x ̄ = 5 × 4 μm, n = 20), monoblastic, integrated, terminal, subglobose or spherical, brown to dark brown. Conidia (16 –) 25–50 (– 65) × 5–8 μm (x ̄ = 38 × 7 μm, n = 30), catenated, acrogenous, simple, phragmosporous, arranged in branched chains, dry, brown to dark brown, cylindrical, rounded at both ends, composed of globose to ellipsoidal cells, occasionally smaller at the apex (1–2 cells black at the apex), subhyaline at the terminal cell, 2–15 - septate, constricted at septa, verrucose, with spinulose on the substrate.</p><p>Culture characteristics.</p><p>Conidia germinated on the PDA within 24 h, and germ tubes are produced from the basal cell. Colonies growing on PDA reached 40–43 mm in diam. after two weeks at 25 ° C in the dark. Colonies from above regular, white aerial mycelium slightly raised, medium dense, fluffy, filiform, velvety, pale purple; in reverse, purplish brown at the center, with greyish white at the edge, with pale brown ring between them, the color gradually lightens from the center to the margin.</p><p>Material examined.</p><p>China • Hainan Province, Wuzhishan City, <a href="https://tb.plazi.org/GgServer/search?materialsCitation.longitude=109.57667&amp;materialsCitation.latitude=18.891388" title="Search Plazi for locations around (long 109.57667/lat 18.891388)">Shuiman River tropical rainforest scenic area in Wuzhishan</a>, 18°53'29"N, 109°34'36"E, elevation 1,845 m, on dead branches of Strychnos nux-vomica ( Loganiaceae), 15 August 2021, Jian Ma, WZS 71.1 (HKAS 139505, holotype), ex-type living culture GZCC 24-0163 ; • ibid., WZS 73 (GZAAS 23-0630, isotype), living culture GZCC 24-0146 .</p><p>Notes.</p><p>Multi-locus phylogeny (Fig. 1) showed that Torula strychnicola (GZCC 24-0163 and GZCC 24-0146) was sister to T. kanvae (MCC- 10010) with strong support (100 % MLBS / 1.00 BIPP) and formed a distinct lineage. Morphologically, Torula strychnicola can be distinguished from T. kanvae by the distinct spinulose conidia on the substrate. Based on the comparison of the septa and the conidial size, T. strychnicola (septa: 2–15, conidia: 25–50 × 5–8 μm) differs from T. kanvae by having 3–4 septa and conidia of 3–6 × 3–8 μm (Crous et al. 2024). The nucleotide base pair comparison between T. strychnicola (GZCC 24-0163, ex-type strain) and T. kanvae (MCC- 10010, ex-type strain) revealed 63 / 529 bp (11.9 %, 16 gaps) in ITS, 24 / 420 bp (5.7 %, 6 gaps) in tef 1 - α, and 144 / 997 bp (14.4 %, 4 gaps) in rpb 2 sequence data. In addition, Torula strychnicola and T. kanvae have a close phylogenetic relationship with T. aquatica (KUMCC 15-0435, ex-type strain), T. gaodangensis (MFLUCC 17-0234, ex-type strain), T. herbarum (CBS 140066, ex-type strain), and T. luguhuensis (KUNCC 22-12427, ex-type strain) with 99 % MLBS and 1.00 BIPP support (Fig. 1); base pair differences between the ex-type strain of T. strychnicola and these species are shown in Table 3 (Crous et al. 2015; Su et al. 2018; Hyde et al. 2017; Luan et al. 2023). Therefore, based on the morphological and phylogenetic evidence, we established T. strychnicola as a new species from Hainan Province, China.</p></div>	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/DFB4D39674D752D387DEADB1E26242EB	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		Pensoft via Plazi	Wu, Na;Chi, Mei-Feng;Du, Hong-Zhi;Chethana, K. W. Thilini;Khongphinitbunjong, Kitiphong;Chen, Ya-Ya;Hyde, Kevin D.;Al-Otibi, Fatimah;Dissanayake, Asha J.;Liu, Jian-Kui	Wu, Na, Chi, Mei-Feng, Du, Hong-Zhi, Chethana, K. W. Thilini, Khongphinitbunjong, Kitiphong, Chen, Ya-Ya, Hyde, Kevin D., Al-Otibi, Fatimah, Dissanayake, Asha J., Liu, Jian-Kui (2025): Morpho-phylogenetic evidence reveals novel species and new records of Torula (Torulaceae, Pleosporales) from medicinal plants in China. MycoKeys 122: 169-196, DOI: 10.3897/mycokeys.122.161816
