Tortulomyces thailandicus gen. et sp. nov. and Nitschkia siAmensis sp. nov. (Coronophorales, Ascomycota) from northern Thailand

Vasilyeva L.N., Chernyshev A.V., Stephenson S.L., Hyde K.D.

Mycoscience 2013; 54(2): 110-115

Two new species collected in northern Thailand are herein described and discussed. Tortulomyces thailandicus is the type of a new genus characterized by a combination of such features as a dense subiculum, non-ostiolate ascomata, two kinds of paraphyses (filiform and bead-like), and 1-septate, brown ascospores. Nitschkia siamensis has non-ostiolate, turbinate and stalked ascomata anf hyaline, often slightly curved, 1-septate ascospores.

DOI 10.1016/j.myc.2012.09.004