Hyphomycetes on Caesalpinia echinata Lam. leaf litter: new records to Brazil

During a survey of decomposing Hyphomycetes associated with leaf litter of Caesalpinia echinata Lam., cultivated at the Instituto de Botânica, Parque Estadual das Fontes do Ipiranga, municipality of São Paulo, SP, four new records from Brazil were isolated: Chaetendophragmia fasciata Castañeda, Henicospora minor P.M. Kirk & B. Sutton, Pseudodictyosporium wauense Matsushima and Sporidesmium filiferum Pirozynski. This paper shows taxonomical description, geographical distribution and comments to all of them.

anamorphic fungi; litter-decomposing fungi; taxonomy