Paraboeremia litseae J. R. Jiang et al.

Wang, Yuchun, Tu, Yiyi, Chen, Xueling, Jiang, Hong, Ren, Hengze, Lu, Qinhua, Wei, Chaoling & Lv, Wuyun, 2024, Didymellaceae species associated with tea plant (Camellia sinensis) in China, MycoKeys 105, pp. 217-251 : 217-251

Paraboeremia litseae J. R. Jiang et al. , Mycological Progress. 16: 291. 2017

Description.

see Jiang et al. (2017).

Materials examined.

China, Yunnan Province, from diseased leaves of C. sinensis , 23 Mar 2020, Y. C. Wang, culture YCW 1356 and culture YCW 1363 .

Notes.

Isolates of Paraboeremia litseae clustered into a sister clade to P. selaginellae (Fig. 5 ). It was first isolated from Litsea sp. ( Jiang et al. 2017). Conidia produced by P. litseae are oblong to ellipsoidal and aseptate with two large polar guttules ( Jiang et al. 2017). This species as an endophytic fungus in Coptis chinensis exhibited obvious inhibition against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ( Ming et al. 2022) . In the present study, two strains were isolated from diseased tea plant leaves. This is the first report of P. litseae causing leaf blight on C. sinensis .

Figures

Figure 5. Didymella yunnanensis CGMCC 3.24241 (YCW 1909) A, B colony on PDA (front and reverse) C, D colony on OA (front and reverse) E myceli F pycnidia forming on PDA G conidia. Scale bars: 10 μm (E – G).