metschnikowiaceous

Adjective

 * 1)  Belonging to the yeast family.
 * 2) * 2007, Jessamyn S. Manson, Marc-André Lachance, James D. Thomson,  Candida gelsemii sp. nov., a yeast of the Metschnikowiaceae clade isolated from nectar of the poisonous Carolina jessamine
 * In the process, strains of Metschnikowia reukaufii were recovered from azalea nectar whereas the jessamine nectars yielded strains of Candida rancoensis as well as a new asexual species with metschnikowiaceous affinities, which we now describe as Candida gelsemii.