Two new species of Talaromyces from Taiwan and Japan

Two new species of Talaromyces, isolated from soils in Taiwan and Japan, are described and illustrated. Talaromyces eburneus, associated with a Geosmithia anamorph, is characterized by off-white colony on oatmeal agar, small pale yellow ascomata, and subglobose to ovoid ascospores with a smooth wall. Talaromyces muroii is characterized by restricted growth on Czapek agar, luteous ascomata, which are initiated by paired gametangia like those seen in members of the series Flavi, ellipsoidal and nearly smooth ascospores, and the absence of an anamorph.