Pleosporales - CBS - KNAW
Pleosporales - CBS - KNAW
Pleosporales - CBS - KNAW
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Fungal Diversity<br />
Anamorph: none reported.<br />
Material examined: FRANCE, Haute Garonne: Avignonet,<br />
Lac de Rosel, artificial lake, on bark and wood of a<br />
submerged branch Populus sp., 23 Nov. 2006, leg. Michel<br />
Delpont, det. Jacques Fournier (IFRD 2039, holotype).<br />
Notes<br />
Morphology<br />
Lentithecium was introduced to accommodate some freshwater<br />
fungi previous assigned under Massarina, suchasM.<br />
arundinacea (Sowerby) Leuchtm. and M. fluviatilis (Zhang et<br />
al. 2009a). It is characterized by its immersed and<br />
lenticular ascomata, thin peridium which is almost equal<br />
in thickness, short pedicellate asci and fusoid or filliform,<br />
hyaline or rarely lightly pigmented, 1- to multi-septate<br />
ascospores (Zhang et al. 2009b). Lentitheciaceae was<br />
introduced to accommodate Lentithecium and some other<br />
related taxa (Zhang et al. 2009a).<br />
Phylogenetic study<br />
The clade of Lentitheciaceae comprises the generic type<br />
Lentithecium fluviatile, as well as L. arundinaceum<br />
(Sowerby) K.D. Hyde, J. Fourn. & Yin. Zhang, Stagonospora<br />
macropycnidia, Wettsteinina lacustris (Fuckel) Shoemaker<br />
& C.E. Babc., Keissleriella cladophila, and the<br />
bambusicolous species Katumotoa bambusicola and<br />
Ophiosphaerella sasicola, which receive high bootstrap<br />
support (Zhang et al. 2009a).<br />
Concluding remarks<br />
Tingoldiago graminicola K. Hirayama & Kaz. Tanaka<br />
form a robust clade with species of Lentithecium (Shearer et<br />
al. 2009). Tingoldiago has lenticular immersed to erumpent<br />
ascomata, numerous and septate pseudoparaphyses,<br />
cylindro-clavate asci and hyaline, 1-septate ascospores with<br />
sheath. All of these characters fit Lentithecium well. We<br />
treat Tingoldiago as a synonym of Lentithecium.<br />
Leptosphaeria Ces. & De Not., Comm. Soc. crittog. Ital. 1:<br />
234 (1863). (Leptosphaeriaceae)<br />
Generic description<br />
Habitat terrestrial, saprobic or parasitic. Ascomata small- to<br />
medium-sized, solitary, scattered or in small groups,<br />
erumpent to superficial, subglobose, broadly or narrowly<br />
conical, papillate, ostiolate. Peridium thick, comprising<br />
layers of cells of textura angularis. Hamathecium of dense<br />
cellular pseudoparaphyses, embedded in mucilage, anastomosing<br />
and branching. Asci 8-spored, bitunicate, fissitunicate<br />
unknown, cylindrical with a furcate pedicel and a large<br />
ocular chamber. Ascospores fusoid or narrowly fusoid,<br />
brown or reddish brown, 3-septate, constricted at each<br />
septum.<br />
Anamorphs reported for genus: Coniothyrium and<br />
Phoma (Hyde et al. 2011; Sivanesan 1984).<br />
Literature: von Arx and Müller 1975; Barr1987a, b; Cesati<br />
and de Notaris 1863; Crane and Shearer 1991; Dongetal.<br />
1998; Eriksson 1967a; Eriksson and Hawksworth 1986,<br />
1991; de Greuter et al. 1988; Hedjaroude1969; von Höhnel<br />
1907;Holm1957, 1975;Huhndorfetal.1990; Luttrell 1973;<br />
Müller 1950; Munk 1957; Saccardo 1878b, 1883, 1891,<br />
1895; Schochetal.2009; Shearer 1993; Shearer et al. 1990;<br />
Shoemaker 1984a; Sivanesan1984; Zhang et al. 2009a.<br />
Type species<br />
Leptosphaeria doliolum Ces. & De Not., Comm. Soc.<br />
crittog. Ital. 1: 234 (1863). (Fig. 44)<br />
≡ Sphaeria doliolum Pers., Icon. Desc. Fung. Min.<br />
Cognit. (Leipzig) 2: 39 (1800).<br />
Ascomata 340–450 μm high×380–500 μm diam., solitary,<br />
scattered or in small groups, superficial, subglobose, broadly<br />
or narrowly conical, with a flattened base on the host surface,<br />
black, usually with 2–4 ring-like ridges surrounding the<br />
ascomata surface, apex with a conical, usually shiny papilla<br />
(Fig. 44a). Peridium 85–110 μm wide at sides, thinner at the<br />
apex, comprising two types of cells, outer layer composed of<br />
small thick-walled cells of textura angularis, cells