Novel fungal taxa from the arid Middle East introduced prior to the year 1940. II - Anamorphic Fungi: Hyphomycetes

摘要

The second contribution of this series surveys 44 hyphomycetes having holotypes from the Middle East region and original protologues elaborated before 1940. The oldest binomial disclosed is Torula hammonis; it was written by Ehrenberg in 1824 on the voucher specimen of a fungus lie collected in Egypt. From 1824-1900 simply 8 new taxa were named. None was established in the first decade of file 20(th) century, while a large proportion was issued in the years 1910-1930: 68.2%. Most novelties were described as species, and fewer were considered varieties or forma of known species; the genus Lacellina was proposed for L. libyca, now L. graminicola. The relevant protologues were elaborated by few mycologists active in France, Germany and Italy. The new organisms commonly developed on parts of green plants collected by European residents or travellers botanists. The original localities of collections are now situated in Egypt, Irak, Libya, Palestine and Yemen. Over half of the novel taxa originates from Egypt. Such includes the oldest 6 species due to Ehrenberg and Thuemen (1876-1880), and another 16 taxa due to Reichert in 1921; the specimens of the latter were collected by Schweinfurth and Ehrenberg with occasional ones by Th. de Heuglin and K. Snell.