Tar-spot fungi on Nothofagus in New Zealand - a preliminary report

Descriptions and illustrations are provided for seven species of fungi asso ciated with tar-spot-like symptoms on living Nothofagus leaves ha New Zeala nd. The fungi treated are Trabutia nothofagi Syd. and its anamorph Baeumler ia nothofagi (Henn.) Petr. & Syd., another Trabutia sp. (which is not forma lly described as the only known collection in immature), two unidentified c oelomycete fungi, and two species described as new, Monostichella nothofagi and Piggotia nothofagi. All of the species are known from very few collect ions, and none from outside New Zealand.