Ej. Vanderlinde et Aj. Botha, PROFILES OF SOUTH-AFRICAN ASCOMYCETOUS FUNGI .1. NITSCHKIA BROOMEIANA, South African journal of botany, 63(2), 1997, pp. 66-67
The fungus Nitschkia broomeiana (Berk.) Nannf. is reported from South
Africa for the first time. Only one other species of this genus has pr
eviously been recorded here: N. confertula (Schw.) Nannf. [as syn. Tym
panopsis euomphala (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Stalb.]. These are the only t
wo representatives of the family Nitschkiaceae, as delimited at presen
t, reported from this country. The fungus is described, illustrated, a
nd compared with other Nitschkia species.