BALLISTOSPOROUS YEASTS FOUND ON THE SURFACE OF PLANT MATERIALS COLLECTED IN NEW-ZEALAND - THE GENERA BENSINGTONIA AND BULLERA WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF 5 NEW SPECIES

In the present study, strains from the surface of plant materials coll ected in New Zealand that belong to the genera Bensingtonia and Buller a are classified. One strain of Bensingtonia was assigned to Ben, ingo ldii, while the remaining strain was assigned to Ben. naganoensis base d on DNA-DNA reassociation experiment. Twenty-one of 28 Bullera strain s were assigned to B. alba (11 strains), B. crocea (6 strains) and B. variabilis (B. strains). The remaining seven strains could not be assi gned to any previously known species and were described as the new spe cies, B. coprosmaensis (1 strain), B. hannae (1 strain), B. huiaensis (B. strain), B. mrakii (3 strains) and B. unica (1 strain).