Méndez-Mayboca, Fátima, Julia Checa, Martín Esqueda & Santiago Chacón. New records of Loculoascomycetes from natural protected areas in Sonora, Mexico. Mycotaxon 111: 19–30. 2010.

ABSTRACT: Thirty collections of Loculoascomycetes from the Ajos-Bavispe National Forest Reserve and Wildlife Refuge, the Pinacate and Great Altar Desert Biosphere Reserve, and the Sierra of Alamos-Rio Cuchujaqui Biosphere Reserve, in Sonora, Mexico were studied. Ten new records for the Mexican mycobiota are presented: Capronia montana, Chaetoplea crossata, Didymosphaeria futilis, Glonium abbreviatum, Hysterographium mori, Montagnula infernalis, Patellaria atrata, Rhytidhysteron rufulum, Thyridaria macrostomoides, and Valsaria rubricosa. Photographs of macro- and microscopic characters are given for some species.

KEYWORDS: Chaetothyriales, Hysteriales, Melanommatales, Patellariales, Pleosporales