The Lentitheciaceae are a
family
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of fungi in the
order of
Pleosporales. They are found world-wide (within China, Egypt, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Russia, Saudi, Thailand, UK and Uzbekistan,
) with the greatest contributions found in Europe and Australia.
In a
phylogenetic
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study of
Lophiostoma and
Massarina species, Lentithecium was proposed in 2009 based on ''Lophiostoma fluvitale'' now called ''
Lentithecium fluviatile'' . Lentitheciaceae is a well supported
clade.
[E. B. Gareth Jones and Ka-Lai Pang (Editors) ]
Lentitheciaceous taxa are
saprobic
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(living on dead tissue) on herbaceous and woody plants having narrow
peridia, fusiform to broadly cylindrical pseudoparaphyses (sterile, thread-like filaments),
hyaline (glassy appearance)
ascospores with 1–3-transverse septa and containing refractive globules, surrounded by a mucilaginous sheath or extended appendage-like sheaths and asexual morphs producing stagonospora-like or dendrophoma-like asexual morphs.
They are found in terrestrial or aquatic habitats.
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Taxonomy
Genera accepted by the GBIF
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include:
* '' Aquilomyces'' (5)
* '' Coenosphaeria''
* '' Darksidea'' (17)
* '' Flavomyces'' (2)
* '' Halobyssothecium'' (2)
* '' Katumotoa'' (2)
* '' Keissleriella'' (54)
* '' Lentithecium'' (13)
* '' Murilentithecium'' (5)
* '' Neoophiosphaerella'' (2)
* '' Poaceascoma'' (7)
* '' Setoseptoria'' (11)
* '' Suttonomyces'' (3)
* '' Tingoldiago'' (4)
* '' Towyspora''
* '' Zopfinula''
Figures in brackets are approx. how many species per genus.
References
Bibliography
*
Zhang Y, Schoch CL, Fournier J, Crous PW, Gruyter J De, Woudenberg JHC, Hirayama K, Tanaka K, Pointing SB, Hyde KD. 2009. Multi-locus phylogeny of the Pleosporales: a taxonomic, ecological and evolutionary re-evaluation. Studies in Mycology 64: 85–102.
External links
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Pleosporales
Dothideomycetes families
Taxa described in 2009