Carrismyces, a new genus of hyphomycetes from a cloud forest in Mexico

Carrismyces proliferatus anam. gen. & sp. nov., a new genus of hyphomycetes collected on the rotten stem of a tree fern (Cyathea sp.) in a Mexican clo ud forest, is described and illustrated. The genus is characterized by mono tretic, percurrent conidiogenous cells and obconical, subglobose, broadly p yriform to turbinate, muriform, dark brown or black conidia often with shor t, colourless, conical appendages. Notes on closely related genera are give n.