Colonies golden yellow, reverse yellow, growing rapidly on MEA (9 cm diam.) after four days at 25°C. Sporangiophores yellow, erect, undulating, curved and constricted next to the sporangia, with yellow droplets inside, simple or with long or short sympodial branches, with encrusted wall, 12–45 μm in diam. Sporangia yellow, globose and subglobose, with a vitreous aspect, 60–170 μm diam, wall echinulate, deliquescent in mature sporangia and persistent in young sporangia. Columella, yellow, highly variable in shape, pyriform, some with constriction, conical, oblong, ellipsoidal, obovoid, subglobose with yellow granules inside, with prominent collars, smooth-walled, 33.5–110 (–130) × 4–90 (–110) μm. Sporangiospores yellowish-green with granular contents, variable in shape and size, elliptical, 5–13 (21.5) × 3–11 (–16) μm, globose and subglobose, 7–18 μm diam., some irregular, 12–30 × 5–12 (–16) μm, smooth-walled. Chlamydospores and zygosporangia not observed.

We suggest this species to be categorized as Least Concern (LC) due to the several records worldwide.

The species in known in 7 countries. In Brazil, it is known in 2 of the 26 states.

There are about 19 occurrences of this species in GBIF.

To the best of our knowledge, this species has been reported from soil, from the rhizosphere of root knot nematode host plants in Iran, from fruits of the hog plum, Spondias mombin L., from Theobroma cacao L., Artocarpus glaucus Blume, Flacourtia inermis Roxb., Musa paradisiaca L., Diospyros kaki L., Bouea macrophylla Buwga, Syzygium cumini L., and Diospyros kaki.

In Brazil, this species is recorded in the Atlantic Forest.

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