Neokamalomyces Sanjay & Raghv. Singh, 2022

Yadav, Sanjay, Verma, Sanjeet Kumar, Singh, Raghvendra, Singh, Vinay Kumar, Chaurasia, Balmukund, Singh, Paras Nath & Kumar, Shambhu, 2022, Neokamalomyces indicus gen. nov., sp. nov. (Mycosphaerellaceae) - a Septoria-like genus from India, Phytotaxa 571 (2), pp. 141-168 : 156

Neokamalomyces Sanjay & Raghv. Singh , gen. nov.

MycoBank: MB 843767

Type species:— Neokamalomyces indicus Sanjay & Raghv. Singh.

Diagnosis:— Differs from Parapallidocercospora by its very well developed pycnidial conidiomata with a central ostiolum, and hyaline conidiogenous cells lining the inner cavity.

Etymology:— Prefix ‘ Neo ’ meaning new and genus suffix ‘ kamalomyces ’ based on the living legend Professor Kamal (DDU Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, India), a renowned mycologist and monographer of Cercosporoid Fungi of India.

Conidiomata pycnidial, brown to dark brown, subepidermal, epigenous, numerous in each lesion, immersed to erumpent, subglobose to globose, with a central ostiolum, releasing a hyaline conidial mass; outer cells with brown, somewhat thickened walls, inner cells hyaline, thin-walled. Ostiole single, circular, central. Conidiophores reduced to conidiogenous cells lining the inner cavity. Conidiogenous cells hyaline, tightly aggregated, cylindrical and tapering gradually toward the apex, ampulliform or lageniform with a relatively long neck, holoblastic, proliferating sympodially, smooth; scars unthickened. Conidia cylindrical, weakly to strongly curved, or flexuous, gradually attenuated to a rounded apex, gradually or more abruptly attenuated into a broadly truncate base, septate, not or indistinctly constricted around the septa, hyaline to light olivaceous, hila unthickened to slightly thickened. Sexual morph not seen.