Vittalia indica gen. & sp. nov. and Helicoma indicum sp. nov. from the forests of northeastern India

Abstract

Two newly discovered hyphomycetous fungi isolated from forest litter of northeastern India are described in this paper. Vittalia, typified by V. indica, has solitary, verrucose, euseptate conidia produced on monotretic conidiogenous cells borne on smooth, branched conidiophores. The new species, Helicoma indicum, is distinguished from other known species in the genus by its uniseptate conidia.