New Zealand Journal of Botany abstracts
Some aquatic hyphomycetes from New Zealand streams
ROBYN D. AIMER*
BARBARA P. SEGEDIN
Botany Department
University of Auckland
Private Bag, Auckland, New Zealand
present address: Department of Biological Sciences,
University of Waikato, Private Bag, Hamilton
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 undes-
cribed species have been tentatively placed in gen-
era and some at present unidentifiable conidia are
included in the illustrations. New records for New
Zealand are: Anguillospora crassa Ingold, A. fili-
formis Greathead, Articulospora moniliformis Ran-
zoni, Campylospora filicladia Nawawi, Dendrospora
juncicola Iqbal, Entomophthora conica Nowa-
kowski, E. rhizospora Thaxter, Flabellospora acu-
minata Descals & Webster, F. verticillata
Alasodura, Flagellospora penicillioides Ingold,
Fontanospora eccentrica (Petersen) Dyko, Gyoerf-
fyella biappendiculata (Arnold) Ingold, G. ento-
mobryoides (Boerema & Arx) Marvanova, G.
gemellipara Marvanova, Heliscina campanulata
Marvanova, Lateriramulosa uni-inflata Matsush-
ima, Lemonniera aquatica de Wildeman, Lunulos-
pora curvula Ingold, L. cymbiformis Miura,
Margaritispora monticola Dyko, Mycocentrospora
varians Sinclair & Morgan Jones, Pleuropedium tri-
cladioides Marvanova & Iqbal, Taeniospora gra-
cilis Marvanova, Tetrachaetum elegans Ingold,
Tetracladium setigerum (Grove) Ingold, Triclad-
ium attenuatum Iqbal, T. castaneicola Sutton, T.
chaetocladium Ingold, T. curvisporum Descals, T.
splendens Ingold, Tripospermum myrti (Lind.)
Hughes, Triscelophorus acuminatus Nawawi, Var-
icosporium 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,
Keywords aquatic hyphomycetes; new records;
descriptions; New Zealand; streams
Received 30 October 1984; accepted 11 December 1984
New Zealand Journal of Botany, 1985, Vol. 23 : 273-299
0028-825X/85/2302-0273$2.50/0 © Crown copyright 1985
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