SOME PHIALIDIC FUNGICOLOUS FUNGI FROM THE SOUTHERN CASPIAN COASTS

During 2003-05 Iranian provinces in the Southern Caspian coast (Gilan, Mazandaran and GolestanProvinces, N. Iran) were investigated in order to collect and identify fungicolous species on various fungal hosts. Fifty-seven isolates were obtained and these were classified into seven genera, Acremonium, Cladobotryum, Fusarium, Sepedonium, Hypomyces, Lecanicillium, Simplicillium and Trichoderma. Among 13 species obtained, Acremonium cf. recifei, Cladobotryum purpureum, C. mycophilum, Sepedonium microspermum, Simplicillium lanosoniveum, Lecanicillium wallacei are new records for Iran. A few isolates belonging to Acremonium, Fusarium and Sepedonium (Table 1) could not be identified to species level with the available methods and literature. Trichoderma was the most frequently isolated genus.