Niveomyces albus

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Niveomyces albus
Niveomyces albus
Niveomyces albus
Niveomyces albus
Niveomyces albus


Holotype:

THAILAND, Nakhon Ratchasima Province, Khao Yai National Park, 1 Nov. 2016, D. Thanakitpipattana, N. Kobmoo, R. Somnuk & B. Sakolrak, holotype BBH 42322, ex-type living culture BCC 83025.


Habitat:

Underside of a dicotyledonous leaf


Host:

Ophiocordyceps dipterigena


Description:

Host covered by dense, white and cottony mycelium forming on the stromata of Ophiocordyceps dipterigena s.l.Hyphae septate, hyaline, smooth walled, irregularly branched, 1–2 µm wide. Conidiophores mono or synnematous, septate, cylindrical, simple, dichotomously or irregularly branched of variable length. Conidiogenous cells arising directly from the hyphae, cylindrical, 12–60 × 1–2 µm, bearing a rather irregularly, geniculate rachis. Conidia forming singly on denticles, cylindrical with rounded ends and on apiculus, hyaline, smooth-walled, aseptate, 5–10 × 1–2 µm.


Culture characteristics:

Colonies on PDA attaining a diam of 13–15 mm in 20 d at 25 °C, cottony, pale yellow.




Reference:

  • N. Kobmoo, K. Tasanathai, J.P.M. Araújo, et al. (2023). New mycoparasitic species in the genera Niveomyces and Pseudoniveomyces gen. nov. (Hypocreales: Cordycipitaceae), with sporothrix-like asexual morphs, from Thailand . FUSE12: 91–110.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.3114/fuse.2023.12.07
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Strain

BCC 73628
BCC 74477
BCC 83025