Abstract
Two new species of Ascomycetes from Iraq are described and illustrated. Corynascella arabica sp. nov., isolated from donkey dung, is the only species of the genus with a cephalothecoid peridium and ascospores with two terminal, eccentric germ pores; Zopfiella submersa sp. nov., isolated from submerged plant debris, differs from the other species of the genus mainly by having slightly inaequilateral ascospores with a subapical germ pore and an umbonate apex.