Description of Plicaria sylvieae (Pezizaceae), a new Mediterranean non-pyrophilous species

Van Vooren N., Suberbielle N. – 16 March 2025 – Vol. 17 (1)

Description and illustration of a new Plicaria species, collected in Corsica (France), characterized by its smooth ascospores and its habitat. Our collections were compared, morphologically and phylogenetically, with other known species with smooth a... Read More

Ascomycètes non lichénisés nouveaux pour la France. Notules n° 6

Mombert A., Hairaud M., Stöckli E., Chasle J.-C., Senn-Irlet B., Priou J.-P., Van Vooren N. – 16 March 2025 – Vol. 17 (1)

This article provides a list of non-lichenised ascomycetes considered as new for France. The taxa are presented as brief notes with indication of location, habitat, and some taxonomic data. This sixth series deals with the following species: Allophyl... Read More

What is Peziza livida Schumach. (Pezizales)? Critical review of its interpretations, and description of Perilachnea carbonicola sp. nov.

Van Vooren N., Stöckli E. – 16 March 2025 – Vol. 17 (1)

New collections of a rare species, growing on burnt places and traditionaly named Trichophaea livida since the late 1980s, gave the opportunity to sequence it and to explore its taxonomic history. We discovered that the original Peziza livida has bee... Read More

First Italian collections of Daleomyces stictisporus (Pezizaceae) and an updated key to the genus Daleomyces

Agnello C., Van Vooren N. – 16 March 2025 – Vol. 17 (1)

The first Italian collections of Daleomyces stictisporus are described based on findings made in Apulia (Italy). This contribution is also accompanied by colour photographs of fresh samples in habitat, and microscopic characters, line drawings, phylo... Read More

Morchella disparilis (Pezizales) – first record for the Sicily and first morphological, molecular and ecological data for Italy

Calanni Rindina M., Vasquez G.E. – 13 December 2024 – Vol. 16 (5)

Morchella disparilis Loizides & P.-A. Moreau is a spring species that was first described in 2016 on samples collected in Cyprus. It is an easy-to-identify species with a Mediterranean range. The specific epithet, which means “different” or “dissimil... Read More

New species and records of intrahymenial parasites in the genus Helicogonium (Helicogoniaceae, Phacidiales)

Baral H.O., Perić B. – 13 December 2024 – Vol. 16 (5)

Ten new species are described in Helicogonium and new records of eight known species are presented. The species are illustrated either by drawings or photographs, or in nine species by both. Helicogonium is a genus of intrahymenial parasites growing ... Read More

Phragmocalloria (Helotiales incertae sedis), a new genus of Calloria-like species with large, 3–7-septate ascospores

Baral H.O. – 13 December 2024 – Vol. 16 (5)

The new genus Phragmocalloria is proposed for Coryne faberi and two newly described species, P. brevispora and P. septemseptata. Phragmocalloria resembles Calloria s.str. in having sessile, yellow-orange, drought-tolerant apothecia and inamyloid asci... Read More

Octospora sulcatispora sp. nov. (Pezizales) – a species of Octospora with an unexpected ascospore ornamentation

Ribes M.Á., Martínez-Gil R., Eckstein J., Vega M., Janošík L., Calzada A. – 24 July 2024 – Vol. 16 (4)

Octospora sulcatispora is described as a new species based on five collections from three different locations in Spain (Andalucía, Castilla y León and La Rioja). It is unique due to the sulcate ornamentation of its ascospores, a trait otherwise compl... Read More

First reports of autumnal morels in Sicily: Morchella galilaea and Morchella rufobrunnea (Pezizales, Morchellaceae)

Calanni Rindina M., Caprì M. – 24 July 2024 – Vol. 16 (4)

The present study aims to confirm the presence in Italy, particularly in Sicily, of two interesting species belonging to the genus Morchella Dill. ex Pers., one predominantly found in autumn, Morchella galilaea Masaphy & Clowez, and another one which... Read More

Ritrovamento di Plectania melastoma (Pezizales, Sarcosomataceae) associata ad Abies borisii-regis in Grecia

Agnello C., Kaounas V., Ntinos A. – 24 July 2024 – Vol. 16 (4)

The study of a Plectania melastoma collection, growing in Greece on Abies borisii-regis roots, cones and wood remnants, is presented herein. The article is accompanied by illustrations of macro- and microscopic features. A nrITS DNA sequence was also... Read More

Paragalactinia pseudomichelii (Pezizaceae), a new species from eastern North America

Van Vooren N., Khomenko I., Lebeuf R., Healy R., Smith M.E. – 24 July 2024 – Vol. 16 (4)

Presentation and illustration of a new species of the genus Paragalactinia, P. pseudomichelii, collected in Canada and the USA, based on morphological and molecular characters. An updated key to the genus Paragalactinia is also provided. Read More

Pisorisporium cymbiforme (Sordariomycetes, Pisorisporiales) found in Northern Europe

Isaksson R., Wergen B. – 24 July 2024 – Vol. 16 (4)

Pisorisporium cymbiforme is reported new to Sweden, based on a finding in the province of Jämtland, where the species was collected in moist conditions near the river Lerdalsälven. The Swedish material is described with macro-, micro-, and habitat ph... Read More