Lipomyces Starkeyi on the Skin Surface of the Human Body

SUMMARY

1.	Three cultures of Lipomyces Starkeyi were isolated from the skin of three different persons. These are the first isolations of any species of the genus recorded from a habitat other than the soil.
2.	Lipomyces lipoferus Lod. & Rij is considered to be a synonym of Lipomyces Starkeyi Lod. & Rij.
3.	All six cultures of Lipomyces Starkeyi studied (including the type strain of L. lipoferus, here reduced to synonymy with L. Starkeyi) produced a “starch-like” substance from glucose, like that produced by all species of the genus Cryptococcus. This might indicate a phylogenetic relationship between the perfect genus Lipomyces and the imperfect genus Cryptococcus.