Brachysporiella pulchra (Subram.) S. Hughes, New Zeal. J. Bot. 17(2): 184 (1979)

Chun-Sheng, Long, You-Peng, Wu, Xu, Zhang, Yan, Lin, Xiang-Chun, Shen, Jian, Ma & Qi-Rui, LI, 2023, Additions to hyphomycetes from Yungui Plateau, China with three new species (Ascomycota, Sordariomycetes), Biodiversity Data Journal 11, pp. 101629-101629 : 101629

Brachysporiella pulchra (Subram.) S. Hughes, New Zeal. J. Bot. 17(2): 184 (1979)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: recordedBy: Chun-Sheng Long ; occurrenceID: E1A38663-4F73-5C35-9B0B-3985BFA64030; Taxon : scientificName: Brachysporiella pulchra; Location : continent: Asia ; country: China; stateProvince: Yunnan; county: Nanjian Yi Autonomous County; locality: Lingbaoshan National Forest Park ; verbatimElevation: 2338 m; verbatimCoordinates: 24.7864N, 100.4352E; Identification: identifiedBy: Chun-Sheng Long, Qi-Rui Li & Jian Ma; Event: eventDate: 18/8/2021; habitat: on decaying wood; Record Level: collectionID: GMB0410

Description

Conidiophores 151-395 μm long (x̅ = 269.9 μm, SD = 65.7, n = 20), 3.6-6.5 μm wide (x̅ = 5 μm, SD = 1.0, n = 20), mononematous, erect, single, brown or dark brown, smooth. Conidiogenous cells 6-12 μm long (x̅ = 9.1 μm, SD = 2, n = 20), 2.5-3.5 μm wide (x̅ = 3 μm, SD = 0.5, n = 20) ampulliform to cylindrical, brown to dark brown, Conidia 15-20 μm long (x̅ = 17.3 μm, SD =1.4, n = 20), 7.9-12 μm wide (x̅ = 10 μm, SD = 1.2, n = 20), solitary, clavate, guttulate, truncated in base, hyaline, 3-septate, smooth-walled

Also see Hughes (1979).

Notes

Brachysporiella pulchra superficially resembles B. gayana Bat, but the conidia in B. pulchra are smaller (24-26 × 10.5-12.5 µm vs. 30-38 × 13-21.5 µm) ( Li et al. 2019) and its conidiophores are branched. B. pulchra has been recorded from China, India and Japan ( Gao 2016).