sp. nov., an endophyte isolated from .

An endophytic member of the genus was isolated from the root of a healthy 3-year-old in Yunnan province, PR China. The results of phylogenetic analyses based on a combined of ITS, 1 and 2 indicated that this isolate was distinct from other species of the genus and closely related to . It can be distinguished from by its slower growth rates on PDA and colony morphology. The novel isolate formed conidia in thick white pustules scattered mostly at the margin. Its conidiophores tended to be regularly -like, little branched, sometimes substituted by phialides singly or in whorls. Conidia are smooth, mostly broadly subglobose to ellipsoidal. In combination with the genotypic and phenotypic characteristics, all data demonstrated that the fungus studied represented a unique and distinguishable novel species of the genus , for which the name sp. nov. is proposed.