Pleosporales - CBS - KNAW

Fungal Diversity
monoceras Alcorn nested within Pleosporaceae based on
multigene phylogenetic analysis (Schoch et al. 2009;
Plate 1).
Syncarpella Theiss. & Syd., Annls mycol. 13: 631 (1915).
Type species: Syncarpella tumefaciens (Ellis & Harkn.)
Theiss. & Syd., Annls mycol. 13(5/6): 633 (1915).
≡ Sphaeria tumefaciens Ellis & Harkn., J. Mycol. 2: 41
(1886).
Syncarpella was introduced by Theissen and Sydow
(1915) as a genus of Montagnellaceae within Dothideales.
A detailed description of S. tumefaciens can be seen in Barr
and Boise (1989). Syncarpella was considered closely
related to Leptosphaeria, and was treated as a synonym
(Clements and Shear 1931). Syncarpella is characterized by
its abundant globose, ovoid to turbinate ascomata with
minute papillae which are seated on a common basal stroma
and which are erumpent through fissures in the host tissues
(Barr and Boise 1989). The peridium is thicker at the base,
pseudoparaphyses are cellular, and asci are bitunicate,
clavate to oblong with a furcate pedicel. Ascospores are
pale brown to brown, oblong to narrowly obovoid, ends
obtuse, transversely septate, smooth-walled. All these
characters fit Cucurbitariaceae, where Barr and Boise
(1989) transferred Syncarpella.
Teichospora Fuckel, Jb. nassau. Ver. Naturk. 23–24: 160
(1870) [1869–70].
Type species: Teichospora trabicola Fuckel, Jb. nassau.
Ver. Naturk. 23–24: 161 (1870) [1869–70].
Teichospora was introduced by Fuckel (1870), and was
typified by T. trabicola, with four more species included,
i.e. T. brevirostris Fuckel, T. dura Fuckel, T. morthieri
Fuckel and T. obducens (Schumach.) Fuckel. Only T.
brevirostris and T. trabicola were kept in Teichospora
(Barr 1987b). After studying the type specimens, Barr
(1987b) indicated that Teichospora was different from
Strickeria with Teichospora belonging to Pleosporales,
and Strickeria closely related to Melanomma (Melanommatales).
Currently, more than 250 names are included
within Teichospora (http://www.mycobank.org, Jan/2011),
but almost no molecular phylogenetic study has been
conductedonthisgenus.
Testudina Bizz., Atti Inst. Veneto Sci. lett., ed Arti, Sér. 6
3: 303 (1885).
Type species: Testudina terrestris Bizz., Fungi venet. nov.
vel. Crit. 3: 303 (1885).
Testudina terrestris is characterized by its reticulately
ridged ascospores, which readily distinguish it from other
genera of Zopfiaceae (Hawksworth 1979). The species is
usually associated with other fungi, or on the wood of Abies?
and Pinus or on the fallen leaves of Taxus in Europe
(Hawksworth and Booth 1974; Hawksworth1979).
Tetraplosphaeria Kaz. Tanaka & K. Hirayama, Stud.
Mycol. 64: 177 (2009).
Type species: Tetraplosphaeria sasicola Kaz. Tanaka & K.
Hirayama, Stud. Mycol. 64: 180 (2009).
Tetraplosphaeria was introduced by Tanaka et al. (2009)
to accommodate bambusicolous fungi with immersed to
erumpent, globose to subglobose and smaller (mostly<
300 μm) ascomata. The peridium is thin, and is composed
of thin-walled cells of textura angularis. The pseudoparaphyses
are cellular, and asci are fissitunicate, 8-spored,
cylindrical to clavate with short pedicels. Ascospores are
narrowly fusoid, hyaline and surrounded with a sheath.
Species of Tetraplosphaeria have Tetraploa sensu stricto
anamorphic stage, which is quite unique in Tetraplosphaeriaceae
(Tanaka et al. 2009).
Tingoldiago K. Hirayama & Kaz. Tanaka, Mycologia 102:
740 (2010).
Type species: Tingoldiago graminicola K. Hirayama &
Kaz. Tanaka, Mycologia 102(3): 740 (2010).
Tingoldiago is a genus of freshwater ascomycetes characterized
by flattened, globose, immersed to erumpent ascomata,
and numerous cellular pseudoparaphyses (Hirayama et al.
2010). Asci are fissitunicate and cylindrical, and ascospores
are 1-septate, which usually turn 3-septate and pale brown
when old, usually with a sheath (Hirayama et al. 2010).
Based on both morphology and multigene phylogenetic
analysis, Tingoldiago should be treated as a synonym of
Lentithecium (Shearer et al. 2009a; Zhang et al. 2009a).
Tremateia Kohlm., Volkm.-Kohlm. & O.E. Erikss., Bot.
Mar. 38: 165 (1995).
Type species: Tremateia halophila Kohlm., Volkm.-Kohlm.
& O.E. Erikss., Bot. Mar. 38: 166 (1995).
Tremateia was introduced as a facultative marine genus
which is characterized by depressed globose, immersed
ascomata, numerous and cellular pseudoparaphyses, fissitunicate
and clavate asci, ellipsoid muriform ascospores,
and a Phoma-like anamorph (Kohlmeyer et al. 1995).
These characters point Tremateia to Pleosporaceae
(Kohlmeyer et al. 1995). DNA sequence based phylogenies
placed T. halophila as sister to Bimuria novae-zelandiae
in Montagnulaceae (Schoch et al. 2009; Suetrong et al.
2009).
Triplosphaeria Kaz. Tanaka & K. Hirayama, Stud. Mycol.
64: 186 (2009).
Type species: Triplosphaeria maxima Kaz. Tanaka & K.
Hirayama, Stud. Mycol. 64: 188 (2009).
Triplosphaeria was introduced as a bambusicolous genus
characterized by immersed ascomata, numerous cellular