Parasynnemellisia khasiana Pratibha, Bhat & Prabhug. sp. nov. (Figure 2)

MycoBank MB858822

Etymology: Species name ‘khasiana’ refers to the place of collection, Khasi hills.

Colonies on natural substrate effuse, hairy, white, covered with light orange pin-head-like synnemata. Mycelium partly superficial, partly immersed in the host tissue, composed of brown, smooth, septate, branched, thin-walled, 1.5–3 µm wide hyphae. Synnemata determinate, conspicuous, superficial, erect, obclavate to obconical, up to 2.3 mm long, 100– 200 μm wide at base, 40–80 μm wide in middle, 100–400 μm wide at convex apex, composed of parallelly adpressed, erect to flexuous, septate, unbranched to branched, subhyaline, smooth, 2–3 μm wide conidiophores. Conidiogenous cells monophialidic, terminal, integrated, cylindrical, slightly tapering towards apex, 18–25 × 1.5–2 μm, hyaline, smooth, with a minute collarette at the tip. Conidia solitary, lanceolate, navicular to fusiform, aseptate, guttulate, subhyaline, smooth, 15–18.5 × 3–5.5 μm, aggregated in a slimy, orange head at the tip of synnema.

Type: — INDIA, Meghalaya, Khasi Hills, Mawsynram, on dead culms of Chimonocalamus griffithianus, 26 July 2017; J. Pratibha (HCIO 52081 holotype!), Isotype BF-71 (ASSAM), ex-type culture NFCCI 4381.

Note: Parasynnemellisia differs from Synnemellisia by distinctly large synnema and in size of the conidia. It also has conidia in slimy mass compared to dry conidia in Synnemellisia.