taxonID	type	description	language	source
03829D56F10AFFF5FF6EF80F25EDFBE6.taxon	etymology	Etymology: — The epithet “ ovatospora ” refers to the ovate shape of conidia.	en	Tang, Dexiang, Zhu, Juye, Luo, Lijun, Hou, Donghai, Wang, Zhiqin, Yang, Shidao, Yu, Hong (2022): Ophiocordyceps ovatospora sp. nov. (Ophiocordycipitaceae, Hypocreales), pathogenic on termites from China. Phytotaxa 574 (1): 105-117, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.574.1.8, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.574.1.8
03829D56F10AFFF5FF6EF80F25EDFBE6.taxon	materials_examined	Holotype: — CHINA. Yunnan Province: Jiangcheng County, Jiahe Town, Jiangxi village, 23 ° 13 ′ 50 ′′ N, 101 ° 19 ′ 13 ′′ E, alt. 880 m, on a termite buried in soil, 15 June 2022, H. Yu (YHH 2206001, holotype; YFCC 22069183, ex-type culture). GenBank accession number: ITS = OP 295105, nrSSU = OP 295110, nrLSU = OP 295113, tef- 1 a = OP 313801, rpb 1 = OP 313803, rpb 2 = OP 313805.	en	Tang, Dexiang, Zhu, Juye, Luo, Lijun, Hou, Donghai, Wang, Zhiqin, Yang, Shidao, Yu, Hong (2022): Ophiocordyceps ovatospora sp. nov. (Ophiocordycipitaceae, Hypocreales), pathogenic on termites from China. Phytotaxa 574 (1): 105-117, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.574.1.8, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.574.1.8
03829D56F10AFFF5FF6EF80F25EDFBE6.taxon	description	Description: — Sexual morph: Stroma solitary, simple, cylindrical or clavate, glabrous, smooth, up to 11 – 16 cm (x ̅ = 13 cm) long, 1 – 1.2 mm (x ̅ = 1 mm) in diam., pale yellow, 9 cm emerging above leaf litter, 4 cm buried in the soil, fertile portion enlarging and generating toward the upper part of stromata, 30 – 35 × 1.2 – 1.4 mm (x ̅ = 35 × 1.3 mm, n = 2), with perithecial apices. Perithecia pseudo-immersed, ovoid to pyriform, with short, exposed neck or rounded ostiole, (100 –) 110 – 140 × (75 –) 80 – 110 µm (x ̅ = 125 × 95 µm, n = 30). Asci hyaline, filiform, 8 - spored, (100 –) 110 – 125 (– 130) × (4 –) 5 – 7 µm (x ̅ = 120 × 6 µm, n = 30); ascus caps prominent, capitate, 3 – 4 µm high (x ̅ = 4 µm, n = 30) and 4 – 5 µm wide (x ̅ = 4 µm, n = 30). Ascospores whole, hyaline, filiform, multiseptate, (100 –) 110 – 130 × 1 – 2 µm (x ̅ = 120 × 2 µm, n = 20). Asexual morph: Hirsutella. Colonies on PDA, 55 – 60 mm diam. In 30 days at 25 ° C, mycelium abundant, cushioned, slightly convex, pale to ivory. Stromata emerging after 10 days, ivory to pale yellow, up to 25 – 40 × 1 – 2 mm (x ̅ = 30 × 1.5 mm, n = 30), reverse pale yellow to dark purple. Asexual conidiogenous structures were not observed from the stroma. Hyphae hyaline, septate, smooth-walled. Conidiogenous cells arising from aerial mycelium on PDA, monophialidic or rarely polyphialidic, hyaline, smooth, swollen towards the base, flask-shaped, tapering gradually into a thin neck, (10 –) 15 – 35 (– 40) µm (x ̅ = 25 µm, n = 20) long, (2 –) 3 – 6 µm (x ̅ = 5 µm, n = 20) wide at the base, 0.6 – 1.2 µm (x ̅ = 0.8 µm, n = 20) wide at the apex. Conidia solitary, smooth-walled, hyaline, ovate, 3 – 5 × 3 – 4 µm (x ̅ = 4 × 3.5 µm, n = 20).	en	Tang, Dexiang, Zhu, Juye, Luo, Lijun, Hou, Donghai, Wang, Zhiqin, Yang, Shidao, Yu, Hong (2022): Ophiocordyceps ovatospora sp. nov. (Ophiocordycipitaceae, Hypocreales), pathogenic on termites from China. Phytotaxa 574 (1): 105-117, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.574.1.8, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.574.1.8
03829D56F10AFFF5FF6EF80F25EDFBE6.taxon	biology_ecology	Habitat: — On adult termites (Termitidae) buried in soil, emerging from the leaf litter in subtropical monsoon evergreen broad-leaf forest.	en	Tang, Dexiang, Zhu, Juye, Luo, Lijun, Hou, Donghai, Wang, Zhiqin, Yang, Shidao, Yu, Hong (2022): Ophiocordyceps ovatospora sp. nov. (Ophiocordycipitaceae, Hypocreales), pathogenic on termites from China. Phytotaxa 574 (1): 105-117, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.574.1.8, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.574.1.8
03829D56F10AFFF5FF6EF80F25EDFBE6.taxon	distribution	Known distribution: — China, Yunnan Province, Jiangcheng County, Jiahe Town, Jiangxi village.	en	Tang, Dexiang, Zhu, Juye, Luo, Lijun, Hou, Donghai, Wang, Zhiqin, Yang, Shidao, Yu, Hong (2022): Ophiocordyceps ovatospora sp. nov. (Ophiocordycipitaceae, Hypocreales), pathogenic on termites from China. Phytotaxa 574 (1): 105-117, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.574.1.8, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.574.1.8
03829D56F10AFFF5FF6EF80F25EDFBE6.taxon	materials_examined	Additional specimen examined: — CHINA. Yunnan Province: Jiangcheng County, Jiahe Town, Jiangxi village, 23 ° 13 ′ 50 ′′ N, 101 ° 19 ′ 13 ′′ E, alt. 880 m, on a termite buried in soil, 15 June 2022, D. X. Tang (YHH 2206002; YFCC 22069184, living culture). GenBank accession number: ITS = OP 295106, nrSSU = OP 295111, nrLSU = OP 295114, tef- 1 a = OP 313802, rpb 1 = OP 313804.	en	Tang, Dexiang, Zhu, Juye, Luo, Lijun, Hou, Donghai, Wang, Zhiqin, Yang, Shidao, Yu, Hong (2022): Ophiocordyceps ovatospora sp. nov. (Ophiocordycipitaceae, Hypocreales), pathogenic on termites from China. Phytotaxa 574 (1): 105-117, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.574.1.8, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.574.1.8
03829D56F10AFFF5FF6EF80F25EDFBE6.taxon	discussion	Notes: — Ophiocordyceps ovatospora is characterized by solitary pale yellow stromata, pseudo-immersed, ovoid to pyriform perithecia, filiform asci, filiform ascospores, and flask-shaped conidiogenous cells with solitary conidia. In the phylogenetic analyses, O. ovatospora was clustered in Hirsutella clade of Ophiocordyceps and formed a sister lineage with O. khokpasiensis, with strong statistical support by BP = 100 %, PP = 100 %. The total sequence length was 5573 bp for O. ovatospora and O. khokpasiensis, the gap sites of O. ovatospora was 463 bp, and O. khokpasiensis was 3785 bp, their conserved sites were 1788 bp, and variable sites were 26 bp. Ophiocordyceps ovatospora is morphologically similar to O. khokpasiensis by producing pseudo-immersed perithecia, filiform asci and ascospores, monophialidic phialides, and oval conidia. However, the two species differ in size of the perithecia, asci and ascospores. Ophiocordyceps ovatospora has smaller perithecia than O. khokpasiensis (110 – 140 × 80 – 110 µm vs. 200 – 250 × 120 – 200 µm) but larger asci (110 – 125 × 5 – 7 µm vs. 62.5 – 125 × 4 – 5 µm) (Table 2).	en	Tang, Dexiang, Zhu, Juye, Luo, Lijun, Hou, Donghai, Wang, Zhiqin, Yang, Shidao, Yu, Hong (2022): Ophiocordyceps ovatospora sp. nov. (Ophiocordycipitaceae, Hypocreales), pathogenic on termites from China. Phytotaxa 574 (1): 105-117, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.574.1.8, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.574.1.8
