Savoryella sarushimana Calabon & Jones & Pang & Abdel-Wahab & Jin & Devadatha & Sadaba & Apurillo & Hyde 2023

2.5.22 Savoryella sarushimana (Figure 8)

Abdel-Wahab (2011) reported 27 marine taxa from driftwood collected at Sarushima Island, Japan, among which seven were suspected to be possibly new to science. Savoryella sarushimana is an asexual fungus forming a monophyletic group with Savoryella nypae in a combined analysis of 18S, 28S, ITS rDNA, RPB 2, and TEF- 1α (Zhang et al. 2019a). The conidia of S. sarushimana are characteristic in having 3 – 5-septa, not or slightly constricted at the septa, thick septa with dark-coloured bands, reddish brown to black mature conidia, with a rough surface and sometimes with long tapering projections forming hairy tufts. Savoryella sraushimana can be distinguished from S. nypae by its much larger conidia and wall ornamentations.