Notes on Caribbean Discomycetes. V. A Preliminary Annotated Checklist of the Caribbean Pezizales

The  following  annotated  checklist  attempts  to  organize  the  scattered  reports  of  the  Ascomycetcs  in  the  order  Pezizales  from  the  islands  of  the  West  Indies.  Many  of  these  previously  published  reports  are  in  general  floras  which  list  all  the  fungi  from  particular  islands  or  island  groups.  A  list  of  these several  published floras, the islands  covered  and  the  number  of  Pezizales  included  by  each author  is furnished  in the  Appendix.  A  second  purpose  of  this  list  is  to  provide  a  modern  deposition  for  the  species. As many  of  them  were reported  in  older  publications,  their  generic  deposition  does not  reflect  modern  concepts. Type studies have been  neces-sary  in  many  instances  to  determine  the  identity   of  these  ill-defined  or  misplaced  species.  Aside  from  the  published  accounts  of  species,  this report  is based  on  the  examination  of  a  series  of  previously  unreported  specimens  from  Jamaica  provided  by  Dr.  Richard  P.  Korf,  as  well  as  my  own  collections  and field data  from  Puerto Rico. Thus, the list indirectly serves as an  index  of  recent  collections  from  Puerto  Rico  and  Jamaica.  Dennis  (10)  has  treated  the  Helotiales,  inoperculate  disconiycetes.