Colletotrichum tainanense de Silva, Crous & P.W.J. Taylor, IMA Fungus 10(1): 23 (2019)

Material examined.

China, Guangdong Province, Huazhou, isolated from healthy leaf of Citrus grandis cv. “Tomentosa”, May 2019, Y.X. Shu, (dried culture ZHKU 21-0086); living culture ZHKUCC 21-0101 .

Notes.

A single isolate obtained in this study (ZHKUCC 21-0101) clustered with the Colletotrichum tainanense (CBS 143666) ex-type strain with 93% ML, 83% MP bootstrap and 1.0 BP values (Fig. 1). Morphologically, the isolate obtained in this study is similar to those in the original description of C. tainanense (de Silva et al. 2019). To our knowledge, this is the first report of C. tainanense on C. grandis cv. “Tomentosa” .