Some aquatic hyphomycetes from New Zealand streams

Abstract

In a study of aquatic hyphomycetes in New Zealand streams forty-three species have been identified. illustrated. and their distribution recorded. A further twenty-two apparently undescribed species have been tentatively placed in genera and some at present unidentifiable conidia are included in the illustrations. New records for New Zealand are: Anguillospora crassa Ingold. A. filiformis Greathead, Articulospora moniliformis Ranzoni. Campylospora filicladia Nawawi, Dendrospora juncicola Iqbal, Entomophthora conica Nowakowski, E. rhizospora Thaxter. Flabellospora acuminata Descals & Webster, F. verticillaya Alasodura. Flagellospora penicillioides Ingold. Fontanospora eccentrica (Petersen) Dyko, Gyoerfyella biappendiculata (Arnold) Ingold, G. entomobryoides (Boerema & An) Marvanová. G. gemellipara Marvanová, Heliscina campanulata Marvanová, Lateriramulosa uni-inflata Matsushima. Lemonniera aquatica de Wildeman, Lunulospora curvula Ingold, L. cymbiformis Miura, Margaritispora monticola Dyko, Mycocentrospora varians Sinclair & Morgan Jones. Pleuropedium tricladioides Marvanová & Iqbal, Taeniospora gracilis Marvanová. Tetraehaetum elegans Ingold, Tetracladium setigerum (Grove) Ingold, Tricladium attenuatum Iqbal, T. castaneicola Sutton, T. chaetocladium Ingold. T. curvisporum Descals, T. splendens Ingold, Tripospermum myrti (Lind.) Hughes, Trisecelophorus acuminatus Nawawi, Varicosporium elodeae Kegel. V. giganteum Crane, and Volucrispora aurantiaca Haskins. The following species have been isolated and grown in culture and full descriptions are given: Anguillospora filiformis, A. longissima (Sacc. & Syd.) Ingold, Articulospora moniliformis Ranzoni, A. tetracladia Ingold.Dimorphospora aff. foliicola Tubaki, Flagellospora penicillioides, Lemonniera aquatica, Lunulospora curvula, Mycocentrospora varians, Tetrachaetum elegans, Tricladium marchalianum de Wildeman, Tricladium chaetocladium, and Triscelophorus acuminatus.

Keywords:

• aquatic hyphomycetes
• new records
• descriptions
• New Zealand
• streams