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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

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