Stagonosporopsis caricae (Sydow & P. Sydow) M. M. Aveskamp et al., Studies in Mycology. 65: 45. 2010

Description.

see Sivanesan (1990).

Materials examined.

China, Yunnan Province, Puer City, Jingdong Yizu Autonomous County, from healthy leaves of C. sinensis, 13 Jun 2020, Y. C. Wang, culture YCW 1928 . Yunnan Province, Puer City, Jingdong Yizu Autonomous County, from healthy leaves of C. sinensis, 13 Jun 2020, Y. C. Wang, culture YCW 1977 .

Notes.

Stagonosporopsis caricae was synonymised as Phoma caricae with Mycosphaerella caricae previously (Sivanesan 1990). It formed a distinct lineage in Stagonosporopsis (Fig. 4). Zhang et al. (2022) observed its sexual morph and is characterised by ascomata pseudothecioid, subglobose, 121 × 142 μm, ostiolate, walls of brown textura angularis and smooth. Asci were bitunicate, cylindrical to clavate, 7 × 90 μm, 8 - spored, ascospores elliptical, straight to slightly curved, 5 × 17 μm, 1 - septate, constricted at the septum, sub-hyaline and smooth. As one of three Stagonosporopsis species, S. caricae caused gummy stem blight (Jeong et al. 2022 b; Seblani et al. 2023). In the present study, two isolates from healthy tea plant leaves grouped with S. caricae with high statistical support (Fig. 4). This is the first report of S. caricae isolated from C. sinensis .