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Cercophora rubrotuberculata sp. nov., a new pyrenomycete from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

     Section for Biodiversity, Illinois Natural History Survey, 1816 S. Oak Street, Champaign, Illinois 61820-6970

George K. Mugambi

     Botany Department, The Field Museum, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60605-2496, and University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Biological Sciences, Chicago, Illinois 60607-7060

Sabine M. Huhndorf

     Botany Department, The Field Museum, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, Illinois 60605-2496

An interesting wood-inhabiting pyrenomycete was discovered while collecting for the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory currently being conducted in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. This species is unique in possessing superficial ascomata with reddish tubercles and ascospores that develop an apical swollen brown cell and a long, basal hyaline cell. Because these ascospore characters fit the traditional morphological circumscription of Cercophora, this species is described as a new species within this genus.

Key words: Ascomycota, Lasiosphaeriaceae, Sordariales, southern Appalachians, systematics, temperate forests