HYPHOMYCETOUS FUNGI: VOLUCRISPORA AURANTIACA N. GEN., N. SP.; V. ORNITHOMORPHA (TROTTER) N. COMB.; AND TRICELLULA CURVATIS N. SP., WITH THE GENUS TRICELLULA EMENDED

Abstract

Three hyphomycetous fungi belonging to the Gloiosporae of the Staurosporae (Moniliales) are described and illustrated. The name Volucrispora aurantiaca n. gen., n. sp. is suggested for an organism characterized by conidiospores with one to five cells connected to a basal cell by narrow isthmuses or constrictions. The relationship of this fungus with Titaea ornithomorpha Trotter (1904) is discussed and the latter name should become Volucrispora ornithomorpha (Trotter) n. comb. The genus Tricellula van Beverwijk (1954) is emended to include Tricellula curvatis n. sp., which differs mainly in its characteristic spore shape from Tricellula inaegualis van Beverwijk, the type species of the genus Tricellula.