Abstract
Torrentispora fibrosa gen. sp. nov. (Ascomycota, Annulatascaceae) is described based on specimens from submerged wood collected from
streams in Tai Po Kau Forest Reserve, Hong Kong. T. fibrosa is characterized by immersed to superficial ascomata with a peridium of
black cells arranged in irregular rows, wide septate paraphyses, long cylindrical asci with a relatively massive refractive apical ring,
and unicellular ascospores with a fibrillar sheath. Illustrations from light and scanning electron microscopy are provided. It is
compared with species in the genus Annulatascus, from which it differs in ascoma peridium and ascospore sheath morphology, and
with other aquatic ascomycetes possessing ascospores with a similar fibrillar sheath structure.