Epicoccum catenisporum N. Valenzuela-Lopez et al., Studies in Mycology. 90: 30. 2018

Description.

see Valenzuela-Lopez et al. (2018).

Materials examined.

China, Jiangxi Province, Nanchang City, from diseased leaves of C. sinensis cv. Zhenong 139, 22 Jun 2019, Y. C. Wang, culture YCW 142 .

Notes.

Epicoccum catenisporum was introduced as Phoma catenisporum before the comprehensive revision of Epicoccum (Chen et al. 2015 a) . It was first isolated from a leaf spot of Oryza sativa in Guinea-Bissau and morphologically characterised by the production of pycnidia as observed in several other members of Epicoccum (Valenzuela-Lopez et al. 2018) . Conidiogenous cells were phialidic, hyaline, doliiform or ampulliform and conidia were aseptate, hyaline ovoid or ellipsoidal and guttulate (Valenzuela-Lopez et al. 2018). In the present study, one isolate from diseased tea plant leaves grouped with E. catenisporum (CBS 181.80) with high statistical support (Fig. 3). This is the first report of E. catenisporum isolated from C. sinensis .