Mycological Research



Protophysarum phloiogenum and a new family in the Physarales


A. CASTILLO a1, C. ILLANA a1 and G. MORENO a1
a1 Departamento de Biología Vegetal, Universidad de Alcalá, 28871, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain

Abstract

A taxonomic and chorologic study of Protophysarum phloiogenum, including light and SEM micrographs is presented. The authors propose the new family Protophysaraceae in the Physarales.

(Accepted September 8 1997)