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Neochaetosphaerella thaxteriospora gen. et sp. nov. and Tympanopsis texensis sp. nov. (Coronophorales, Ascomycota) from Texas, USA

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Ascomata of three species of coronophoraceous fungi collected from the Big Thicket National Preserve and an area immediately adjacent to the preserve were examined with a scanning electron microscope to reveal the distinctive features of the ascomatal surface. Based on the results of the examination, two new species (Neochaetosphaerella thaxteriospora and Tympanopsis texensis) are herein described and discussed. Both a description and an illustration of Scortechinia acanthostroma are also provided.

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Acknowledgements

We wish to thank Dale Kruse and David Lewis for logistical assistance in the field and the staff of the Big Thicket National Preserve and the Big Thicket Association for organizing the ATBI and providing financial support to the senior author in 2009. The scanning electron microscope used in this study was made available to us by the Far Eastern Center of Electron Microscopy of the A.V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology (Vladivostok), and the authors are grateful to the engineer D.V. Fomin for his help in producing the micrographs.

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  1. Institute of Biology and Soil Sciences, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia

    Larissa N. Vasilyeva

  2. A.V. Zhirmunsky Institute of Marine Biology, Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia

    Aleksey V. Chernyshev

  3. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR, 72701, USA

    Steven L. Stephenson

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Vasilyeva, L.N., Chernyshev, A.V. & Stephenson, S.L. Neochaetosphaerella thaxteriospora gen. et sp. nov. and Tympanopsis texensis sp. nov. (Coronophorales, Ascomycota) from Texas, USA. Fungal Diversity 52, 191–196 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13225-011-0124-y

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