Paraxerochrysium coryli Crous & Decock, sp. nov. Index Fungorum number: MB841830; Facesoffungi number: FoF Etymology. Name refers to the host genus Corylus from which it was isolated. Mycelium consisting of hyaline, smooth-walled, branched, septate, 3 – 4(–7) μm diam hyphae. Reproductive structures consisting of solitary or short chains of chlamydoconidia, borne by retrogressive sympodial formation [...]
Nothophaeomoniella ekebergiae Crous, sp. nov. Index Fungorum number: MB839544; Facesoffungi number: FoF Etymology. Name refers to the host genus Ekebergia from which it was isolated. Conidiomata pycnidial, black, globose, 80 –150 µm diam, with central ostiole; wall of 6 – 8 layers of brown textura angularis; occurring as separate conidiomata on SNA and OA, but [...]
Melanina gunde-cimermaniae Grube, Muggia, de Hoog, sp. nov. Index Fungorum number: MB838767; Facesoffungi number: FoF; (Fig. 6) Etymology. The species is named in honor of the Slovenian mycologist and microbiologist Nina Gunde-Cimerman, who has contributed significantly to the knowledge of stress toler- ance of black yeasts. Holotype: GZU-A1111 (LMCC0452), cultured strain, pre- served in a [...]
Vredendaliella oleae C.F.J. Spies, Moyo, Halleen & L. Mostert, sp. nov. Index Fungorum number: MB836263; Facesoffungi number: FoF; Fig. 6 Etymology. Referring to the host from which this species was recovered. Mycelium smooth-walled, forming irregularly swollen hyphal cells on PDA, hyaline, sometimes dark brown, 1– 2.5 (av. 1.5) μm. Conidia forming on hyphal cells and [...]
Incumbomyces delicatus Y. Quan, D. Shi, S.A. Ahmed, Al-Hatmi & de Hoog, sp. nov. Index Fungorum number: MB836181; Facesoffungi number: FoF; Fig. 3 Etym.: species name refers to fragile, straight and unbranched hyphae. Colonies on MEA at 28°C attaining 6 mm diam in 14 d, smooth, black, with narrow, white marginal zone. Hyphae melanized, regularly [...]
Pseudomalbranchea gemmata Rodr.-Andr., Cano & Stchigel, sp. nov.(Fig. 10) Index Fungorum number: MB 835221; Facesoffungi number: FoF Etymology: From the Latin gemmatum, jewelled, be- cause the swollen conidia disposed in chains. Diagnosis: Pseudomalbranchea gemmata is phylogenet- ically close to Uncinocarpus reesii and Amauroascus volatilis-patellis. However, it does not produce a sexual morph and it differs from [...]
Neosorocybe pini Crous & Akulov, sp. nov. Index Fungorum number: MB 835093; Facesoffungi number: FoF; Fig. 42. Etymology: Name refers to the host genus Pinus from which the species was isolated. Conidiomata synnematous, consisting of conidiophores that are brown, smooth, multiseptate, branched, subcylindrical, up to 300 µm tall. Conidiogenous cells integrated on conidiophores, terminal and intercalary, [...]
Serusiauxia inexpectata Ertz & Diederich, sp. nov.(Figs 15–16) Index Fungorum number: MB 834932; Facesoffungi number: FoF Diagnosis: Distinguished from all known Pyrenulaceae spe- cies by a sorediate thallus and chemistry with gyrophoric acid (C+ red soralia). Type: Mauritius, Pamplemousses district, Pamplemousses, Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Botanical Garden, 20°06’21”S, 57°34’49”E, elev. 80 m, on bark of a ± vertical [...]
Pseudoarthropsis cirrhata (Oorschot & de Hoog) Stchigel, Rodr.-Andr. & Cano, comb. nov. Index Fungorum number: MB 834928; Facesoffungi number: FoF Basionym: Arthropsis cirrhata Oorschot & de Hoog, Mycotaxon 20: 130 (1984). Description: Vegetative hyphae septate, pale yellowish orange, smooth- and thin-walled, dichotomously branched, 2–3 μm wide. Fertile hyphae well differenti- ated, arising at right angles as [...]
Pewenomyces kutranfy Balocchi, I. Barnes & M. J. Wingf sp. nov. (Figures 5 and 6) Index Fungorum number: MB 834915; Facesoffungi number: FoF Etymology: From indigenous Chilean and Argentinian Mapuche language mapudungun; “kutran”, meaning a disease and the “-fy”, suffix from Latin “-ficare”, to “make into”. Thus, illustrating the fact that the fungus causes disease. Ascomata [...]