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Bulbocatenospora, a new hyphomycete genus from Venezuela

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2000

R. F. CASTAÑEDA RUIZ
Affiliation:
Instituto de Investigaciones Fundamentales en Agricultura Tropical Alejandro de Humboldt, (INIFAT), calle 1 esq. 2, Santiago de Las Vegas, Ciudad de La Habana, Cuba C.P. 17200
T. ITURRIAGA
Affiliation:
Departamento de Biologia de Organismos, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Sartenejas, Baruta, Edo Miranda, C.P. 89000, Venezuela
C. DECOCK
Affiliation:
Mycothèque de l'Université catholique de Louvain, (BCCM™/MUCL, MBLA), Place Croix du Sud, 3, 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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Abstract

Bulbocatenospora complanata gen. et sp. nov. is described and illustrated. The fungus is characterized by the production of inconspicuous, brown conidiophores, usually reduced to the conidiogenous cells, which are monotretic, ventricose, dark brown, with a well-defined pore. The conidia are muriform, broadly ovoid to irregular, complanate, brown, forming short, acropetal chains. The fungus was found on rotten leaves of Bactris setulosa in an undisturbed rainforest in Venezuela. Comparisons are made with some morphologically similar genera, Piricauda, Chuppia and Janetia.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© The British Mycological Society 2000

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