Pseudoxylomyces Kaz. Tanaka & K. Hiray.

Cheng, Kai-Wen, Yang, Jiue-in, Srimongkol, Piroonporn, Stadler, Marc, Karnchanatat, Aphichart & Ariyawansa, Hiran A., 2025, Fungal frontiers in toxic terrain: Revealing culturable fungal communities in Serpentine paddy fields of Taiwan, IMA Fungus 16, pp. e 155308-e 155308 : e155308-

Pseudoxylomyces Kaz. Tanaka & K. Hiray.

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The genus Pseudoxylomyces was introduced by Tanaka and Hiray (2015) as a saprobic genus in habitat on submerged wood and typified with Ps. elegans ( Goh et al. 1997; Tanaka et al. 2015). Currently, only two species are recognized in MycoBank (Accession date: March 10, 2025) for Pseudoxylomyces . To date, species of Pseudoxylomyces have only been described based on their asexual morphs. These species are characterized by brown, septate conidiophores that may be branched or absent and by holoblastic conidiogenous cells. The conidia are usually solitary, yellowish or orange brown to dark brown, broadly ellipsoidal or fusiform with several transverse septa of thick-walled, with paler end cells and without sheath or appendages ( Tanaka et al. 2015; Dong et al. 2020). However, this group has a wide distribution and has been reported from Australia, Brazil, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Seychelles, Thailand and USA ( Dong et al. 2020). The majority of the isolates reported for this genus were derived from the submerged wood in the aquatic environment ( Dong et al. 2020).