NEW SPECIES OF HAPLOTRICHUM AND SOLICORYNESPORA FROM CUBA

Two new hyphomycetes from Cuba, Haplotrichum perseae anam. sp. nov., f ound on dead aerial branches of live Persea americana and Solicorynesp ora kendrickii anam. sp. nov., found on leaf litter of Theobroma cacao , are described and illustrated. The former has peculiar conidia with a verrucose, thick (tunica-like) outerwall, and the latter is distingu ished by hairy conidiophores with a radially lobed basal cell and cyli ndrical to ellipsoid, 2-4 euseptate conidia with brown central cells a nd pale brown ends.