Microthecium africanum (J.C. Krug) Y. Marin, Stchigel, Guarro & Cano comb. nov.

Persiciospora africana J.C. Krug, Mycologia 80: 416. 1988. [Basionym]

Notes.

Microthecium africanum is characterized by ostiolate ascomata and punctate, ellipsoidal ascospores. Two asexual morphs with different conidia have been reported: (i), 1 –4(– 5)-celled, globose and smooth-walled at first but becoming cylindrical and coarsely verrucose later; (ii), 1-2-celled, large, usually cylindrical and smooth-walled (Krug 1988). However, the type strain was probably not a pure culture because the SSU and LSU sequences match with different species of Fusarium and the pictures of the conidia type (i) resemble the chlamydospores produced by several species of this genus.