REPRESENTATIVE CULTURES: PDDCC 6800, 6625.

COLONY MORPHOLOGY OA: Colonies 40-50 mm diam. after 7 days. Mycelium; of long, erect, dense hyphae, grey at centre and olivaceous at edge. Often has sectors with short, sparse, white hyphae through which the umber agar surface is visible. Reverse; vinaceous red or yellow-green at centre, peach at colony edge. ME: Colonies 30-40 mm. Mycelium; dense, woolly, grey-olivaceous at centre, white at edge. Sectors with mycelium of short, yellowish hyphae. Reverse; bay-coloured with yellow pigment diffusing into the medium. CHLAMYDOSPORES: None. CONIDIA: Uniform in shape, oblong with rounded ends. (4-)5-7(-9.5) x (1.5-)2-3 µm. PYCNIDIA: Few produced, solitary, scattered over colony.

OCCURRENCE: Common, plurivorous saprophyte or weak wound pathogen. Isolated from Lolium perenne L., Paspalum dilatatum Poir., Holcus lanatus L., as well as Actinidia chinensis Planch. and Vaccinium corymbosum L.

NOTE: P. huancayensis has been previously known only from Peru where it has been described as a secondary pathogen from several Solanum species. (Turkensteen 1978).