Decayed wood from fallen white spruce (
Picea glauca) and trembling aspen (
Populus tremuloides) collected in northeastern Alberta, Canada, was the source of new isolates of species in the ascomycete genera
Gymnostellatospora and
Pseudogymnoascus. In addition to new reports of
G. japonica, G. frigida and
P. roseus, two new species are described.
Gymnostellatospora canadensis sp. nov. resembles
G. japonica but differs in producing brown ascomata and in the formation of an arthroconidial anamorph.
Gymnostellatospora subnuda sp. nov. is distinct in lacking differentiated peridial hyphae.
Gymnostellatospora alpina was not found in decayed wood but is reviewed based on extralimital material. A dichtomous key to the five species of
Gymnostellatospora is provided.
Key Words
Gymnostellatospora
-
Malbranchea
- Myxotrichaceae -
Pseudogymnoascus