The Type Species of Dasyscyphella Tranzschel

Abstract

allies, based on hair shape, D. cassandrae should be assigned. No material of the species was available at Kew and when a fungus agreeing tolerably with the description by Tranzschel was collected on an introduced Ericaceous plant in New Zealand I ventured to identify this with D. cassandrae and figured it as such in Kew Bulletin 15: 297 (1961). The New Zealand fungus has hairs of the common Dasyscyphus type, thin-walled, cylindric obtuse and covered with fine granules throughout. Recently, Dr. Raitviir in Tartu has