Merimbla humicoloides sp nov from conifer forest soil of Veracruz state, Mexico

Merimbla humicoloides sp, nov. was isolated after heat treatment of soil co llected in a pine forest of Veracruz state, Mexico. The fungus is character ized by pate buff to cinnamon colonies that become dark brown to black in r everse and conidiophores that vary from irregularly asymmetrical penicilli to symmetrical penicilli with inflated metulae, and Humicola-like chlamydos pores on the submerged hyphae, Phylogenetic inferences made from the ITS1-5 .8S-ITS2 rDNA sequences indicate that M. humicoloides is a member of the Tr ichocomaceae and that it is related to M. ingelheimensis, Hamigera avellane a, and Penicillium species.