China, Shandong Province, Plant detritus, 20 Mar 2009, C.F. Wang, RCEF 4518.

Colonies grown on PDA for 3 d at 21 °C, reaching ca. 65 mm in diameter. Mycelia colourless, 8–20 μm wide. Primary conidiophores, positively phototropic, colourless, unbranched and producing a single globose conidium, extending to a length of 53–287 μm into the air, 7.5–20.5 μm wide. Primary conidia forcibly discharged, colourless, globose, measuring 36–52 μm in greatest width and 42–65 μm in total length, including a basal papilla 12–18 μm high and 6.5–14 μm wide. After discharging on to 2% water-agar, similar and smaller secondary conidia arise from primary conidia. Microconidia produced readily from primary conidia, globose or almond-shaped, 13–19 × 11–15 μm. Villose spores formed after 4–5 d, globose, 20–42 μm.

The ex-type living culture is ATCC 28691 (United States, Louisiana, Plant detritus, 3 January 1972). Due to the absence of molecular data of ex-type strain ATCC 28691, the molecular data of the authentic strain NRRL 28638, which has been applied in many other phylogenetic analysis (James et al. 2006; Liu and Voigt 2011; Gryganskyi et al. 2012; Tretter et al. 2014; Spatafora et al. 2016), was used in this study instead. The monotypic genus Delacroixia was typified by D. coronata which was transferred from an ascomycete Boudierella coronata Costantin (Costantin 1897; Saccardo and Sydow 1899). After that, it was reclassified as a subgenus of Conidiobolus, namely Conidiobolus sub. Delacroixia (Sacc. & P. Syd.) Tyrrell & MacLeod to define all those Conidiobolus species capable of forming microspores and, consequently, D. coronata was recombined as C. coronatus (Tyrrell and MacLeod 1972; Ben-Ze’ev and Kenneth 1982).