Panchanania and Phragmospathula, two new genera of the Hyphomycetes

Abstract

Two new Hyphomycetes collected from Jaipur, Rajasthan, India are described. Panchanania jaipurensis gen. et sp.n., collected on dead and dying twigs of Grewia salvifolia has characteristic solitary stalked blastospores, each with a dark-coloured head and paler stalk, on sympodulae borne on synnemata. Phragmospathula phoenicis gen. et sp.n., collected on dead leaf rachis of Phoenix sp. has characteristic solitary spathulate phragmospores (blastospores) which are dark-coloured in the middle and paler at the ends and are produced on short conidiophores capable of proliferation from within. On the basis of the mode of development of the spores, both fungi are placed in the Torulaceae Corda emend. Subram.