COLLETOGLOEOPSIS, A NEW COELOMYCETE GENUS TO ACCOMMODATE ANAMORPHS OF2 SPECIES OF MYCOSPHAERELLA ON EUCALYPTUS

Species in Colletogloeopsis are characterized by having acervular coni diomata, and brown, verruculose, thick-walled, aseptate conidia that a re formed on brown, verruculose conidiogenous cells that proliferate s ympodially or percurrently. Colletogloeum nubilosum, the anamorph of M ycosphaerella cryptica, is transferred to Colletogloeopsis. Colletoglo eopsis molleriana is described for the anamorph of Mycosphaerella moll eriana, formed from single ascospore isolations obtained from collecti ons of Eucalyptus globulus leaves from Portugal and California, United States. Mycosphaerella molleriana is redescribed and distinguished fr om Mycosphaerella nubilosa, which was earlier regarded to be synonymou s with the former.