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Morphological characterization of litter decomposing conidial fungi from Cubatão, SP, Brazil

This article presents six conidial fungi isolated from leaf litter collected at the municipality of Cubatão, São Paulo State, Brazil. The plant debris were prepared by the successive washing method with sterile distilled water and incubated in moist chambers. The fungi were mounted in permanent slides and deposited in SP Herbarium. The hyphomycetes Dendryphion comosum Wall., Graphium calicioides (Fr.) Cooke & Massee, Mycoleptodiscus disciformis Matsush., Periconia igniaria E.W. Mason & M.B. Ellis, Polyschema olivaceum (Ellis & Everh.) M.B. Ellis and Rhexoacrodictys erecta (Ellis & Everh.) W.A. Baker & Morgan-Jones are described and illustrated for the first time to Brazil.

anamorphs; fungal diversity; hyphomycetes


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