The genus Kernia

Abstract

The Ascomycete genus Kernia is emended according to revised concepts. Five species, K. bifurcotricha Saxena & Mukerji, K. hippocrepida sp. nov., K. nitida (Sacc.) Nieuwland, and K. pachypleura sp. nov., are included and a key to the species given. Two species, K. brachytricha (Ames) Benjamin and K. geniculotricha Seth, are placed in synonymy with K. nitida. Three species, K. bartlettii (Massee & Salmon) Benjamin, K. furcotricha Tandon & Bilgrami, and K. spirotricha Benjamin, are excluded from Kernia. K. bartlettii belongs in Lophotrichus Benjamin and is transferred to that genus as L. bartlettii (Massee & Salmon) Malloch & Cain. K. furcotricha is considered a possible species of Chaetomidium (Zopf) Sacc. K. spirotricha belongs in Chaetomidium and is transferred as C. spirotrichum (Benjamin) Malloch & Cain. As a result of studies of the type specimen of Fairmania singularis Sacc, since a Fairman collection under that name was included in K. hippocrepida, the new combination Microascus singularis (Sacc.) Malloch & Cain is proposed.