Epicoccum oryzae S. Ito & Iwadare, Report of the Hokkaido Prefectural Agricultural Experiment Station 31: 1. 1934

Description.

see Hou et al. (2020 b).

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 2010 .

Notes.

Epicoccum oryzae was synonymised as E. nigrum previously (Schol – Schwarz 1959). It was resurrected as a separate species, distant from E. nigrum and CBS 173.34 was proposed as the ex-neotype of E. oryzae (Hou et al. 2020 b) . Epicoccum oryzae is characterised by “ olivaceous hyphae, globose or subglobose sporodochia and globose, subglobose or pyriform, granular, verrucose, olivaceous conidia, consisting of one to five cells ” (Hou et al. 2020 b). It clustered into a sister clade to E. endophyticum and E. mackenziei (Fig. 3). In the present study, one isolate from healthy tea plant leaves grouped with E. draconis (CBS 173.34 and CBS 174.34) with high statistical support (Fig. 3). This is the first report of E. oryzae isolated from C. sinensis .