Fungal Diversity Dictyochaeta and Dictyochaetopsis species from the Pandanaceae Stephen R. Whittoni,l, Eric H.C. McKenzie3 and Kevin D. Hydei* I Centre for Research in Fungal Diversity, Department of Ecology and Biodiversity, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong; * e-mail:
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[email protected] Whitton, S.R., McKenzie, E.H.C. and Hyde, K.D. (2000). Dictyochaeta and Dictyochaetopsis species from the Pandanaceae. Fungal Diversity 4: 133-158. The genera Dictyochaeta and Dictyochaetopsis are discussed with records from the Pandanaceae. Five new species of Dictyochaeta are described. Twenty six species are transferred from Codinaea to Dictyochaeta, and four species are transferred to Dictyochaetopsis. Keys are provided to those species of Dictyochaeta described since 1991, and to all species of Dictyochaetopsis. Key words: anamorphic fungi, Freycinetia, keys, microfungi, mitosporic fungi, Pandanus, taxonomy. Introduction Arambarri and Cabello (1989) used cluster analysis to determine the similarities of 114 species of phialidic dematiaceous hyphomycetes, based on their morphological similarity (using 28 characters). They found that most species in Dictyochaeta were closely related, and thus concluded the genus Dictyochaeta (syn. Codinaea) to be well defined. Due to the presence of lateral phia1ides, produced from the setae or conidiophores, Codinaea apicalis (Berk. and M.A. Curtis) S. Hughes and W.B. Kendr., Codinaea state of Chaetosphaeria dingleyae S. Hughes and W.B. Kendr., Codinaea elegantissima Lunghini, C.