Among the yeasts isolated from the fruiting bodies of different species of
agarics picked in forests near Moscow and Turku (Finland) in 1995-1998, pop
ulations of an earlier unknown species, morphologically similar to Metschni
kowia lunata but differing from it by physiological characteristics and the
absence of asci with spores, were constantly found. Description of the new
species is given within the genus Candida Berkhout.