Sporormiella tela, a New Species of Pleosporales from Dung of Geese

Sigrid Jakob¹, Michael J. Richardson^2,*, and Joshua Birkebak³

¹New York Mycological Society, 259 21st Street, New York, NY 11215. ²165 Braid Road, Edinburgh EH10 6JE, UK. ³North American Mycological Association, 1716 McMillan Street, Knoxville, TN 37917. *Corresponding author.

Northeastern Naturalist, Volume 31, Issue 1 (2024): 54–63

First published early online: 16 February 2024

Abstract
A new species of Sporormiella, S. tela, so far only found on dung of Anseriformes, is described and illustrated. The species has a thick mycelial weft covering the pseudothecia. In addition to a collection on Branta canadensis (Canada Goose) dung from New York, 2 collections on goose dung from Iceland, and 1 each on Branta leucopsis (Barnacle Goose) dung from Norway and Canada Goose dung from Germany, 3 close-matching sequences have been identified from environmental samples from Estonia, China (Tibet), and India (Kashmir).

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