Cryptophiale udagawae Piroz. & Ichinoe, Can. J. Bot. 46: 1126 (1968)

Chun-Sheng, Long, You-Peng, Wu, Xu, Zhang, Yan, Lin, Xiang-Chun, Shen, Jian, Ma & Qi-Rui, LI, 2023, Additions to hyphomycetes from Yungui Plateau, China with three new species (Ascomycota, Sordariomycetes), Biodiversity Data Journal 11, pp. 101629-101629 : 101629

Cryptophiale udagawae Piroz. & Ichinoe, Can. J. Bot. 46: 1126 (1968)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Chun-Sheng Long ; occurrenceID: F7EFF95D-CA2D-566D-A743-FAC90D454F35; Taxon : scientificName: Cryptophiale udagawae; Location : continent: Asia ; country: China; stateProvince: Guizhou; county: Luodian County; locality: Hongshui river ; verbatimElevation: 399 m; verbatimCoordinates: 25.2239N, 106.5349E; Identification: identifiedBy: Chun-Sheng Long, Qi-Rui Li & Jian Ma; Event: eventDate: 18/9/2021; habitat: on decaying wood; Record Level: collectionID: GMB0408

Description

Conidiophores 97-120 μm long (x̄ = 99.7 µm, SD = 8.3, n = 20), 4.5-9 μm wide (x̄ = 6.2 µm, SD = 1.3, n = 20), straight or flexuous, septate, smooth, brown, with 3-4 branches at the apex. Conidiogenous cells 39-46 μm long (x̄ = 42.1 µm, SD = 4.0, n = 20), 7.6-12 μm wide (x̄ = 8.7 µm, SD = 2.4, n = 20) enteroblastic, phialidic, obscured by a shield of sterile cells. Conidia solitary, 1-septate, falcate, simple, smooth, hyaline, produced in slimy masses, 15.5-18 μm long (x̄ = 16.4 µm, SD = 1, n = 20), 1.2-1.4 μm wide (x̄ =1.3 µm, SD = 1.1, n = 20), solitary, 1-septate, falcate, simple, smooth, hyaline, produced in slimy masses.

Also see Pirozynski (1968).

Notes

Pirozynski (1968) described the species from fallen leaves in Japan. Ma et al. (2010) and Yang et al. (2019) discovered the species in China. Cryptophiale udagawae shows a variable number of branches in the conidiophore. There are 1-3 branches on C. udagawae in Pirozynski (1968), three in Matsushima (1971), 5-8 in Mercado-Sierra et al. (1997) and three in our specimen.