Five New Species of the Botryosphaeriaceae from Acacia Karroo in South Africa

Namaquaropus niger gen nov. & sp.nov. is described from South Africa. In addition, two new species of the subgenus Jehania Distant of Isometopus Fieber (I. mirus sp. nov. and I. maculipennis sp. nov.), and Paloniella flavicolor sp. nov. are described. With these, the known species of Isometopinae in South Africa now number sixteen.

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Four new species of Arthothelium (Arthoniales, Ascomycetes) from Africa and Socotra

Phytotaxa ◽

10.11646/phytotaxa.331.1.3 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 331 (1) ◽

pp. 51

Author(s):

DRIES VAN DEN BROECK ◽

ANDERS TEHLER ◽

TAHINA RAZAFINDRAHAJA ◽

DAMIEN ERTZ

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

New Species ◽

Democratic Republic ◽

Terminal Cell ◽

Tropical Africa ◽

Republic Of The Congo ◽

Brownish Black

Four species of Arthothelium from Africa and Socotra are described as new to science: Arthothelium atrorubrum from Madagascar, characterized by irregularly rounded blackish ascomata with a deeply red hypothecium and submuriform ascospores; Arthothelium aurantiacopruinosum from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, characterized by black, irregularly rounded to stellate, orange pruinose ascomata and muriform ascospores with two larger terminal cells; Arthothelium frischianum from Madagascar, characterized by brownish-black minute irregular ascomata with remnants of thallus and muriform ascospores with one larger terminal cell; Arthothelium miesii from Socotra (Yemen), characterized by a thick thallus, immersed, stellate to cerebriform, brownish, greyish pruinose ascomata and submuriform ascospores. A key to all reported species of Arthothelium from tropical Africa (South Africa excluded) and Socotra is provided.

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Two new species of Campanulaceae from South Africa

Taxon ◽

10.2307/1555026 ◽

2002 ◽

Vol 51 (4) ◽

pp. 731-735 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

De-Yuan Hong

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

New Species ◽

Two New Species

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Note on the discovery of a new Trypanosoma

Proceedings of the Royal Society of London ◽

10.1098/rspl.1901.0138 ◽

1902 ◽

Vol 69 (451-458) ◽

pp. 496-496

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

New Species ◽

Single Flagellum ◽

A New Species ◽

General Appearance

I have received from South Africa specimens of blood taken from cattle which contain a new species of Trypanosoma. This new species can be at once distinguished from the Trypanosomas of Surra, Tse-tse Fly Disease, or Rat by its larger size, it being almost twice as large as any of the others. In general appearance it conforms closely to the others in possessing an oval protoplasmic body, a longitudinal fin-like membrane, and a single flagellum.

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Two new species ofSyllis(Polychaeta: Syllidae) from South Africa, one of them viviparous, with remarks on larval development and vivipary

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom ◽

10.1017/s0025315413001926 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 94 (4) ◽

pp. 729-746 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Carol Simon ◽

Guillermo San Martín ◽

Georgina Robinson

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

New Species ◽

South African ◽

The Other ◽

Coralline Algae ◽

Colour Pattern ◽

The Family ◽

Two New Species ◽

Haliotis Midae ◽

Characteristic Colour

Two new species of South African Syllidae of the genusSyllisLamarck, 1818 are described.Syllis unzimasp. nov. is characterized by having unidentate compound chaetae with long spines on margin, a characteristic colour pattern and its reproduction by vivipary. Vivipary is not common among the polychaetes, but most representatives occur in the family Syllidae Grube, 1850 (in five otherSyllisspecies, two species ofDentatisyllisPerkins, 1981 and two species ofParexogoneMesnil & Caullery, 1818).Syllis unzimasp. nov. differs from the other viviparous species in having large broods (>44 juveniles) which develop synchronously. Development of the juveniles is similar to that of free-spawningSyllisspecies, but the appearance of the first pair of eyespots and the differentiation of the pharynx and proventricle occur later inS. unzima.Syllis amicarmillarissp. nov., is characterized by having an elongated body with relatively short, fusiform dorsal cirri and the presence of one or two pseudosimple chaeta on midbody parapodia by loss of blade and enlargement of shaft.Syllis unzimasp. nov. was found in high densities on culturedHolothuria scabraJaeger, 1833 with single specimens found on a culturedCrassostrea gigasThunberg, 1793 and on coralline algae, respectively, whileS. amicarmillariswas found mainly in sediment outside an abalone farm and less frequently on culturedHaliotis midaeLinnaeus, 1758. We discuss the possible benefits of the association withH. scabratoS. unzimasp. nov.

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Stellarioides littoralis (Asparagaceae, Scilloideae), a distinct new species from eastern South Africa

Phytotaxa ◽

10.11646/phytotaxa.177.5.2 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 177 (5) ◽

pp. 261 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Neil R. Crouch ◽

Mario Martínez-Azorín ◽

Angela J. Beaumont ◽

David Styles

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

New Species ◽

South African ◽

Endemic Species ◽

New South ◽

Morphological Features

A new South African endemic species, Stellarioides littoralis is described and illustrated, with data provided on morphology, ecology and distribution. The species appears to be closely related to S. longibracteata and whilst it shares in common an epigeal habit of the bulb with the latter species, several reproductive and vegetative morphological features clearly distinguish it. The affinities and divergences with other close allies are also discussed.

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