Fungi from the Mamane-Naio vegetation zone of Hawai'i

A survey of higher fungi in the mamane-naio vegetation zone on the slopes o f Mauna Kea on the island of Hawai'i yielded 71 species of ascomycetes and basidiomycetes. Eight xylariaceous ascomycetes are reported. Fifteen specie s of gasteromycetes are reported. Of these Battarrea phalloides, Disciseda anomala, D. verrucosa, Geastrum campestre, G. fornicatum, Tulostoma fimbria ta var. campestre, and T. involucratum are new reports from the Hawaiian Is lands. Forty-eight species of wood-rotting basidiomycetes are reported. Bre vicellicium vulcanense, Crustoderma gigacystidium, Henningsomyces separatus , Hyphoderma sphaeropedunculatum, Hyphoderma naiophila, Hyphodermella mauna keaensis, Phanerochaete crescentispora, Radulomyces kama'aina, and Radulomy ces poni are described as new. Thirty other species of wood-rotting basidio mycetes are new reports from the Hawaiian Islands.