A new species of Memnoniella from India

Abstract

A new species of Hyphomycetes, Memnoniella indica, isolated from decaying leaves of an unidentified dicot plant from the forests of Andaman Islands, India, is described and illustrated. The fungus produces catanulate, globose, verruculose, dark brown conidia on monophialidic, discrete, hyaline conidiogenous cells and short, partly hyaline, determinate, branched, septate, mononematous conidiophores. It is distinguished from the known species of Memnoniella on the basis of morphology and dimension of conidiophores and conidia. A key to the species of Memnoniella is given.