fa. sp. nov., an anamorphic basidiomycete yeast species.

A novel basidiomycete yeast species represented by strain NYNU 2211328 was isolated from a leaf of collected from the Baotianman Nature Reserve in Henan Province, central China. Phylogenetic analysis of the D1/D2 domain of the large subunit rRNA gene and the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region suggested that this strain is closely related to CBS 8477, exhibiting the similarity values of 96.5% and 91.3% in the D1/D2 domain and the ITS region, respectively. Physiologically, the novel strain differs from in its ability to assimilate inulin, trehalose and d-arabinose, its inability to assimilate dl-lactate and its incapability of growth at 30 °C. Both phenotypic and phylogenetic analyses indicated that the isolated strain represents a novel species in the genus , and the name fa. sp. nov. (holotype: CICC 33584; MycoBank number: MB 855585) is proposed.