New occurrences of ascomycetes for south america and the neotropics. In: Agrotrópica v. 32 n. 1 p. 31-36, 2020.

Abstract

The Raso da Catarina Ecological Station (ESEC Raso da Catarina) is a fully protected Brazilian conservation unit, located in the state of Bahia, the Caatinga biome. Systematic research on fungal taxonomy is still poorly performed in this area. In order to know the fungi of the phylum Ascomycota associated with the palm Syagrus coronata (Mart.) Becc. (licuri) two expeditions were carried out, one in August/2017 and the other in April/2018. Green and dry leaves attached to the plant and licuri litter were collected. The samples were analyzed at the UNEBVIII Mycology Laboratory. After morphological characterization, some interesting species of Ascomycota were identified as Phaeosphaeriopsis amblyospora A.W. Ramaley and Apoharknessia eucalypti Crous & Crous & M. J. Wingf. These taxa are documented, in this work, as new records for South America and neotropic, respectively. Description, comments, geographical distribution and illustrations are presented for the species.