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Lentitheciaceae

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Lentitheciaceae
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Dothideomycetes
Order: Pleosporales
Family: Lentitheciaceae
Y. Zhang ter, C.L. Schoch, J.Fourn., Crous & K.D.Hyde, 2009 Stud. Mycol. 64: 93
Type genus
Lentithecium fluviatile (Aptroot & Van Ryck.) K.D. Hyde, J. Fourn. & Ying Zhang[1]
Genera

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The Lentitheciaceae are a family of fungi in the order of Pleosporales. They are found world-wide (within China, Egypt, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Russia, Saudi, Thailand, UK and Uzbekistan,[2]) with the greatest contributions found in Europe and Australia.[3]

In a phylogenetic study of Lophiostoma and Massarina species, Lentithecium was proposed in 2009 based on Lophiostoma fluvitale now called Lentithecium fluviatile (Aptroot & Van Ryck.) K.D.Hyde, J.Fourn. & Ying Zhang. Lentitheciaceae is a well supported clade.[4]

Lentitheciaceous taxa are saprobic (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.[1] They are found in terrestrial or aquatic habitats.[2]

Taxonomy

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Genera accepted by the GBIF include:

Figures in brackets are approx. how many species per genus.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b Calabon, Mark Seasat; Gareth Jones, E.B.; Hyde, Kevin D.; Boonmee, Saranyaphat; Tibell, Sanja; Tibell, Leif; Pang, Ka-Lai; Phookamsak, Rungtiwa (2021). "Phylogenetic assessment and taxonomic revision of Halobyssothecium and Lentithecium (Lentitheciaceae, Pleosporales)". Mycological Progress. 20 (5): 701–720. doi:10.1007/s11557-021-01692-x.
  2. ^ a b Xu, Li; Bao, Dan-Feng; Luo, Zong-Long; Su, Xi-Jun; Shen, Hong-Wei; Su, Hong-Yan (2020). "Lignicolous freshwater ascomycota from Thailand: Phylogenetic and morphological characterisation of two new freshwater fungi: Tingoldiago hydei sp. nov. and T. clavata sp. nov. from Eastern Thailand". MycoKeys (65): 119–138. doi:10.3897/mycokeys.65.49769. PMC 7125235. PMID 32269482.
  3. ^ a b "Lentitheciaceae". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
  4. ^ E. B. Gareth Jones and Ka-Lai Pang (Editors) Marine Fungi: and Fungal-like Organisms (2012), p. 19, at Google Books

Bibliography

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