Table 3.

Morphological characteristics of CNUFC-MSW24-2-11 and the reference species Memnoniella echinata.

Characteristics	CNUFC-MSW24-2-11	Memnoniella echinata a
Colony color	Amber	Amber to Sienna
Conidiophore	Straight to slightly flexuous, smooth to slightly verrucose, unbranched, septate, 2.7–3.6 μm in width, variable in length	Simple, macronematous, mononematous, single, thick-walled, unbranched, erect, straight to slightly flexuous, septate, smooth to slightly verrucose, 40–100 × 4–6 μm, bearing 6–10 conidiogenous cells
Conidiogenous cell	Phialidic, clavate, smooth, 7.3–11.0 × 3.3–4.2 μm	Phialidic, clavate to subcylindrical, smooth, 7–10 × 2–5 μm, with conspicuous collarettes
Conidia	Globose to subglobose, verrucose, aseptate, 5.3–6.3 × 4.5–6.2 μm, formed in long dry chains	Acrogenous, aseptate, globose, verrucose, thick-walled, 3–6 × 3–5 μm (average, 5 × 4 μm), formed in long dry chains

^aFrom the description by Lombard et al. [24].