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Fungal Diversity<br />

pseudoparenchymatous cells, filliform, septate and branched<br />

pseudoparaphyses, and thin-walled cylindrical or broadly<br />

clavate asci. Ascospores are distinctively hyaline or pale<br />

brown, filliform, and strongly helicoid to loosely coiled in<br />

the asci (Sivanesan 1984). The anamorphs of Cochliobolus<br />

belong to Bipolaris and Curvularia (Sivanesan 1984).<br />

Bipolaris and Curvularia can be distinguished by characters<br />

of conidial morphology, conidial germination, hilum structure,<br />

conidial septum and wall structure, conidial septum<br />

ontogeny (Sivanesan 1987). Multigene phylogenetic analysis<br />

indicated that Cochliobolus heterostrophus and C. sativus (S.<br />

Ito & Kurib.) Drechsler ex Dastur nested within the clade of<br />

Pleosporaceae (Zhang et al. 2009a; Plate 1). Thus, its<br />

familial placement is confirmed.<br />

Comoclathris Clem., Gen. fung. (Minneapolis): 37, 173<br />

(1909).<br />

Type species: Comoclathris lanata Clem. [as ‘Comochlatris’],<br />

Gen. fung. (Minneapolis) (1909).<br />

Comoclathris is temporarily placed in Diademaceae, and<br />

its pivotal characters are the circular lid-like opening and<br />

applanate reddish-brown to dark reddish-brown muriform<br />

ascospores with single longitudinal septa (versus two or<br />

more rows of longitudinal septa of Clathrospora) (Shoemaker<br />

and Babcock 1992). Barr (1990b) treated it as a synonym of<br />

Graphyllium. Comoclathris has been linked with an Alternaria-like<br />

anamorphs (Simmons 1952), which may suggest<br />

its close relationship with Pleosporaceae.<br />

Coronopapilla Kohlm. & Volkm.-Kohlm., Mycol. Res. 94:<br />

686 (1990).<br />

Type species: Coronopapilla avellina Kohlm. & Volkm.-<br />

Kohlm., Mycol. Res. 94: 687 (1990).<br />

Coronopapilla is characterized by immersed ascomata<br />

with a conical papilla, thin peridium, 8-spored and thickwalled,<br />

cylindrical and fissitunicate asci. Ascospores are<br />

ellipsoidal, 1-3-septate, brown and distoseptate. Coronopapilla<br />

avellina is an obligate marine species, and was originally<br />

assigned to Didymosphaeriaceae (Kohlmeyer and Volkmann-<br />

Kohlmeyer 1990). The marine habitat of Coronopapilla<br />

makes it readily distinguishable from Didymosphaeria futilis<br />

(the generic type of Didymosphaeria). Thus, the familial<br />

placement of Coronopapilla is yet to be determined.<br />

Cucurbitaria Gray, Nat. Arr. Brit. Pl. (London) 1: 508, 519<br />

(1821).<br />

Type species: Cucurbitaria berberidis (Pers.) Gray, Nat.<br />

Arr. Brit. Pl. (London) 1: 508, 519 (1821).<br />

≡ Sphaeria berberidis Pers., Neues Mag. Bot. 1: 83<br />

(1794).<br />

A narrow generic concept of Cucurbitaria was accepted<br />

by Welch (1926), who restricted Cucurbitaria to five<br />

closely related species, which have turbinate ascomata that<br />

develop cespitosely in a massive subiculum or over<br />

compressed stromatic tissues and have a thick and obconoid<br />

base. A broader generic concept was accepted by Mirza<br />

(1968), who also included species with globose or ovoid to<br />

pyriform ascomata that are gregarious on the substrate with<br />

only sparse subiculum and lack an obconoid region in the<br />

base of the locule. Barr (1990b) accepted an intermediate<br />

concept, and described 11 related species from North<br />

America. Currently, 450 species are accepted in Cucurbitaria<br />

(http://www.mycobank.org/mycotaxo.aspx), and the<br />

genus was assigned to Cucurbitariaceae. In this study, an<br />

isolate of C. berberidis clustered with some species of<br />

Pyrenochaeta and Didymosphaeria futilis, and they get<br />

moderate bootstrap support (Plate 1). Cucurbitariaceae<br />

may be another family within Pleosporineae.<br />

Curreya Sacc., Syll. fung. (Abellini) 2: 651 (1883).<br />

Type species: Curreya conorum (Fuckel) Sacc., Syll. fung.<br />

(Abellini) 2: 651 (1883).<br />

Curreya is a contentious genus which had been assigned to<br />

Pleospora (Barr 1981). von Arx and van der Aa (1983),<br />

however, maintained it as distinct, because of its Coniothyrium<br />

anamorph, and considered Curreya should be closely<br />

related to Didymosphaeria, Melanomma, Paraphaeosphaeria<br />

or Massarina. Because of the small sclerotial cells of its<br />

peridium, the narrower, thinner-walled asci and its Coniothyrium-like<br />

anamorph, Barr (1990b) assigned it to the<br />

Leptosphaeriaceae. Previous phylogenetic studies indicated<br />

that a strain of Curreya pityophila (J.C. Schmidt & Kunze)<br />

Petr. nested within Massarineae (Kruys et al. 2006).<br />

Decorospora Inderb., Kohlm. & Volkm.-Kohlm., Mycologia<br />

94: 657 (2002).<br />

Type species: Decorospora gaudefroyi (Pat.) Inderb.,<br />

Kohlm. & Volkm.-Kohlm., Mycologia 94: 657 (2002).<br />

≡ Pleospora gaudefroyi Pat., Tabl. analyt. Fung. France<br />

(Paris) 10: 40 (no. 602) (1886).<br />

Decorospora gaudefroyi (as Pleospora gaudefroyi) had<br />

been considered a synonym of Pleospora herbarum,<br />

despite its striking sheath of ascospores (Wehmeyer<br />

1961). Molecular phylogenetic analysis based on partial<br />

SSU and ITS rDNA sequences indicated that Decorospora<br />

gaudefroyi was a sister taxon in the Pleosporaceae<br />

represented by Alternaria alternata (Fr.) Keissl., Cochliobolus<br />

sativus, Pleospora herbarum, Pyrenophora triticirepentis<br />

(Died.) Drechsler and Setosphaeria rostrata K.J.<br />

Leonard (Inderbitzin et al. 2002). Decorospora was<br />

introduced as a monotypic genus represented by Decorospora<br />

gaudefroyi, which is characterized by black ascomata<br />

becoming superficial on the substrate at maturity,<br />

septate and branched pseudoparaphyses, fissitunicate, clavate<br />

asci, as well as yellowish brown ascospores with seven<br />

transverse septa and one to three longitudinal septa in each

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