Microfungi from different substrata in south west Africa (Namibia)

PIONTELLI E; GIUSIANO G; SAVINO E; SOLARI N; CARETTA G

Boletín Micológico de Chile

Universidad de Valparaiso

Lugar: Valparaiso - Chile; Año: 2004 vol. 19 p. 63 - 69

0716-114X

This paper can be considered as a littie contribution to knowledge of fungal biodíversity in Namibia. Soils, seed dung and some vegetal substraía such as herb, leaves and bark were collected at random in order to investígate the presence of tropical microfungi and to determine the significance of some fungal taxa in the Namibian ecosystem. A total of 49 genera and 80 taxa predomi-nantly anamorph ofAscomycota ~was recorded, most of them (51) were isolated from soil and many were considered common tropical microfungi. The most representativo isolate taxa in al! substraía analized or in some of them •were: Alternaría, Aspergillus, Aureobasidium, Bipolaris, Chaetomíum, Fusarium, Penicillium and Phoma. It is interesting to note in vegetables the presence of Lasiobolidium spirale, quite a rare species.