<mods:affiliationid="86AB061646219F4F8C0CA27F39DFEA78">Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, College of Bio-Resources and Agriculture, National Taiwan University, Taiwan</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="4E67F29C26AB9EC5F51B15A8BF3F2F1E">Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, College of Bio-Resources and Agriculture, National Taiwan University, Taiwan</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="C59DCDF3A0E99221643C03F986D841F4">Bioproducts Research Chair, Zoology Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia & Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Beni-Suef University, Beni-Suef, Egypt</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="FB26A23425B7E568D537A3EEA357D989">Genetics and Molecular Biology Unit, Faculty of Applied Sciences, University of Sri Jayewardenepura, Gangodawila, Nugegoda, Sri Lanka.</mods:affiliation>
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<figureCitationid="1332CF95565A920F8E8AFF52CB0EFEE4"box="[903,1028,244,270]"captionStart="FIGURE"captionStartId="6.[136,231,1173,1195]"captionTargetBox="[163,1424,322,1136]"captionTargetId="figure-93@6.[151,1435,314,1145]"captionTargetPageId="6"captionText="FIGURE. 2. Leucaenicola osmanthi (NTUH 18-101-1, holotype). a, b.Appearance of Conidiomata on host surface. c. Cultures on PDA, from above and below. d. Vertical section through conidioma. e. Conidiomatal wall. f. Conidiogenous cells and developing conidia. g. Conidia. Scale bars: d = 40 µm, e = 10 µm f–g = 5 µm."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13875082"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13875082/files/figure.png"pageId="5"pageNumber="28">FIGURE 2</figureCitation>
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= 8.5 ± 1.6 × 3.4 ± 0.5 μm), holoblastic, hyaline, smooth, ampulliform to doliiform or cylindrical, lining the conidiomatal cavity.
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= 3.5 ± 0.2 × 2.3 ± 0.1 μm), ellipsoidal to cylindrical, initially hyaline, becoming pale brown, thinwalled, smooth, aseptate, with 1–2 guttules.
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City, Nangang District, Nangang Tea Processing Demonstration Center (N: 25°07′10′′, E: 121°61′21′′), on leaves of
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<taxonomicNameid="4C09A893565A920F8FC8FC06CCC5FC50"authorityName="Ariyawansa, I. Tsai & Thambugala"authorityYear="2020"box="[709,975,928,954]"class="Dothideomycetes"family="Bambusicolaceae"genus="Leucaenicola"kingdom="Fungi"order="Pleosporales"pageId="5"pageNumber="28"phylum="Ascomycota"rank="species"species="osmanthi">
<figureCitationid="1332CF95565A920F89B1FC06CA47FC50"box="[1212,1357,928,954]"captionStart="FIGURE 1"captionStartId="4.[136,229,1801,1823]"captionTargetBox="[151,1435,263,1702]"captionTargetId="figure-24@4.[151,1435,263,1715]"captionTargetPageId="4"captionText="FIGURE 1. RAxML tree obtained from the concatenated DNA sequence data of ITS, LSU, SSU, rpb2 and tef1 genes.The new isolates are shown in red. ML bootstrap values (BS) ≥70 % and Bayesian posterior probabilities (PP) ≥ 0.95 are presented at the nodes. The branches Leucaenicola clades were scaled to half to allow an enhanced arrangement of the tree. The scale bar presents the number of estimated substitutions per site. Sulcatispora acerina (CBS 139703) and Sulcatispora berchemiae (CBS 139704) (Sulcatisporaceae, Pleosporales) were used as outgroups for rooting the tree."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13875080"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13875080/files/figure.png"pageId="5"pageNumber="28">FIGURES 1</figureCitation>
<figureCitationid="1332CF95565A920F8880FC06CA94FC50"box="[1421,1438,928,954]"captionStart="FIGURE"captionStartId="6.[136,231,1173,1195]"captionTargetBox="[163,1424,322,1136]"captionTargetId="figure-93@6.[151,1435,314,1145]"captionTargetPageId="6"captionText="FIGURE. 2. Leucaenicola osmanthi (NTUH 18-101-1, holotype). a, b.Appearance of Conidiomata on host surface. c. Cultures on PDA, from above and below. d. Vertical section through conidioma. e. Conidiomatal wall. f. Conidiogenous cells and developing conidia. g. Conidia. Scale bars: d = 40 µm, e = 10 µm f–g = 5 µm."figureDoi="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13875082"httpUri="https://zenodo.org/record/13875082/files/figure.png"pageId="5"pageNumber="28">2</figureCitation>
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