Acropleurophialis simplex gen. & sp. nov. from China

Abstract

A new asexual ascomycete genus and species, Acropleurophialis simplex collected on dead branches of an unidentified broadleaf tree in Jiangxi Province, China, is described and illustrated. The fungus is distinguished by macronematous, unbranched, determinate or percurrently extending conidiophores, and solitary, semi-endogenous, simple, smooth, spherical or subspherical, aseptate, pale brown to subhyaline conidia seceding schizolytically from polyphialidic, integrated, terminal and intercalary, sympodial, cylindrical conidiogenous cells with conspicuous collarettes.