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a. Massariosphaeria typhicola (from IFRD 2018). a. Asci in pseudoparaphyses. — b, c, d. Pleospora rubicunda (from IFRD 2017). b. Ascus; c. ascomata on the host surface; d. ascospore with wide sheath. a, b in water; d in Indian ink. — Scale bars: a, b, d = 20 μm; c = 0.5 mm.
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Two new species of Amniculicola, A. immersa sp. nov. and A. parva sp. nov. from submerged wood in a freshwater environment in Denmark and France are respectively described and illustrated. In addition, partial 28S rDNA sequence data is analysed to investigate their phylogenetic relationships with other pleosporalean taxa. All presently known Amnicu...
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... Pleosporales is a predominant order with a worldwide distribution in terrestrial and aquatic environments . In these environments, Pleosporales mainly survives as saprophytic fungi on dead leaves or stems (Kodsueb et al. 2006;Zhang et al. 2009aZhang et al. , 2009b. It also can be endophytes, epiphytes and parasites of green leaves or stems and lichens (Calatayud et al. 2001;Kruys et al. 2006;Huang et al. 2008). ...
Tea plant is one of the most important commercial crops worldwide. The Didymellaceae fungi can cause leaf blight disease of tea plant. In this study, 240 isolates were isolated from tea plant leaves of 10 provinces in China. Combined with multi-locus (ITS, LSU, RPB2 and TUB2) phylogenetic analysis and morphological characteristics, these isolates were identified as 25 species of six genera in Didymellaceae, including 19 known species Didymella coffeae-arabicae, D. pomorum, D. segeticola, D. sinensis, Epicoccum catenisporum, E. dendrobii, E. draconis, E. italicum, E. latusicollum, E. mackenziei, E. oryzae, E. poaceicola, E. rosae, E. sorghinum, E. tobaicum, Neoascochyta mortariensis, Paraboeremia litseae, Remotididymella anemophila and Stagonosporopsis caricae, of which 15 species were new record species and six novel species, named D. yunnanensis, E. anhuiense, E. jingdongense, E. puerense, N. yunnanensis and N. zhejiangensis. Amongst all isolates, D. segeticola was the most dominant species. Pathogenicity tests on tea plant leaves showed that E. anhuiense had the strongest virulence, while E. puerense had the weakest virulence. Besides, D. pomorum, D. yunnanensis, E. dendrobii, E. italicum, E. jingdongense, E. mackenziei, E. oryzae, E. rosae, E. tobaicum, N. mortariensis, N. yunnanensis, N. zhejiangensis and R. anemophila were non-pathogenic to the tea plant.
... Notes -Didymellaceae was proposed to encompass Phoma sections and related phoma-like anamorphic genera (de Gruyter et al. 2009). Subsequently, Zhang et al. (2009) assigned Didymellaceae in suborder Pleosporineae within Pleosporales based on multi-locus phylogenetic analysis and morphological comparisons. In the checklist of anamorphic fungi, Wijayawardene et al. (2012) listed 11 asexual morphs within the family. ...
This is the tenth of the series Mycosphere Notes, wherein we present newly discovered saprobic and endophytic fungi isolated from various hosts in China, Thailand, and Uzbekistan. In this compilation, we introduce three new genera, viz., Conicotenuis (Phomatosporaceae), Irregularispora (Stictidaceae) and Minimispora (Phomatosporaceae), and 14 new species, viz., Clonostachys artemisiae (Bionectriaceae), Conicotenuis fusiformis (Phomatosporaceae), Irregularispora olivacea (Stictidaceae), Melomastia loropetalicola (Pleurotremataceae), Minimispora superficialis (Phomatosporaceae), Montagnula agaves (Didymosphaeriaceae), Neodendryphiella brassaiopsidis (Dictyosporiaceae), Paramicrosphaeropsis sexualis (Didymellaceae), Pestalotiopsis camelliae-japonicae (Sporocadaceae), Pestalotiopsis pyrrosiae-linguae (Sporocadaceae), Pestalotiopsis zhaoqingensis (Sporocadaceae), Pseudocoleophoma heteropanacicola (Dictyosporiaceae), Pseudopaucispora heteropanacis (Lophiostomataceae) and Torula longan (Torulaceae). In addition, two species Melomastia phetchaburiensis and M. sinensis are reviewed, and their illustrations are provided based on the holotype. A new host record of Torula phytolaccae is described from Phytolacca americana. We describe the sexual morph of Paramicrosphaeropsis for the first time and revise its generic concept herein.
... They have erumpent, immersed or nearly superficial ascomata with a rough black surface, usually stain the substrate purple, short-pedicellate asci with an ocular chamber and narrowly or broadly fusiform, hyaline to brown, 1 to multi-septate or muriform ascospores, straight or slightly curved, constricted at the septa and often with a gelatinous sheath. Asexual morphs of the family are coelomycetous of Murispora asexualis, M. fissilispora and M. hawksworthii (Wanasinghe et al. 2015;Magaña-Dueñas et al. 2020) and hyphomycetous of Anguillospora longissima, Fouskomenomyces cupreorufescens, F. mimiticus and Vargamyces aquaticus (synonym: Repetophragma ontariense) (Zhang et al. 2009d;Hernández-Restrepo et al. 2017). Members in the family are mainly lignicolous saprobic fungi from freshwater and terrestrial habitats widespread in Europe and known in China and Thailand in Asia (Zhang et al. 2009c;Wanasinghe et al. 2015;Hernández-Restrepo et al. 2017;Dong et al. 2020b;Magaña-Dueñas et al. 2020;Phukhamsakda et al. 2020). ...
... Notes: Amniculicola contains seven freshwater fungi (Zhang et al. 2008(Zhang et al. , 2009dRossman et al. 2016;Magaña-Dueñas et al. 2022). Five sexual morphs have immersed to superficial ascomata with a slit-like ostiole or a papilla, narrowly cylindrical, short-pedicellate asci with a truncate ocular chamber and hyaline, 1-3-septate ascospores sometimes with a gelatinous sheath, often staining the woody substrates purple (Zhang et al. 2008). ...
Freshwater fungi comprises a highly diverse group of organisms occurring in freshwater habitats throughout the world. During a survey of freshwater fungi on submerged wood in streams and lakes, a wide range of sexual and asexual species were collected mainly from karst regions in China and Thailand. Phylogenetic inferences using partial gene regions of LSU, ITS, SSU, TEF1α, and RPB2 sequences revealed that most of these fungi belonged to Dothideomycetes and Sordariomycetes and a few were related to Eurotiomycetes. Based on the morphology and multi-gene phylogeny, we introduce four new genera, viz. Aquabispora, Neocirrenalia, Ocellisimilis and Uvarisporella, and 47 new species, viz. Acrodictys chishuiensis, A. effusa, A. pyriformis, Actinocladium aquaticum, Annulatascus tratensis, Aquabispora setosa, Aqualignicola setosa, Aquimassariosphaeria vermiformis, Ceratosphaeria flava, Chaetosphaeria polygonalis, Conlarium muriforme, Digitodesmium chishuiense, Ellisembia aquirostrata, Fuscosporella atrobrunnea, Halobyssothecium aquifusiforme, H. caohaiense, Hongkongmyces aquisetosus, Kirschsteiniothelia dushanensis, Monilochaetes alsophilae, Mycoenterolobium macrosporum, Myrmecridium splendidum, Neohelicascus griseoflavus, Neohelicomyces denticulatus, Neohelicosporium fluviatile, Neokalmusia aquibrunnea, Neomassariosphaeria aquimucosa, Neomyrmecridium naviculare, Neospadicoides biseptata, Ocellisimilis clavata, Ophioceras thailandense, Paragaeumannomyces aquaticus, Phialoturbella aquilunata, Pleurohelicosporium hyalinum, Pseudodactylaria denticulata, P. longidenticulata, P. uniseptata, Pseudohalonectria aurantiaca, Rhamphoriopsis aquimicrospora, Setoseptoria bambusae, Shrungabeeja fluviatilis, Sporidesmium tratense, S. versicolor, Sporoschisma atroviride, Stanjehughesia aquatica, Thysanorea amniculi, Uvarisporella aquatica and Xylolentia aseptata, with an illustrated account, discussion of their taxonomic placement and comparison with morphological similar taxa. Seven new combinations are introduced, viz. Aquabispora grandispora (≡ Boerlagiomyces grandisporus), A. websteri (≡ Boerlagiomyces websteri), Ceratosphaeria suthepensis (≡ Pseudohalonectria suthepensis), Gamsomyces aquaticus (≡ Pseudobactrodesmium aquaticum), G. malabaricus (≡ Gangliostilbe malabarica), Neocirrenalia nigrospora (≡ Cirrenalia nigrospora), and Rhamphoriopsis glauca (≡ Chloridium glaucum). Ten new geographical records are reported in China and Thailand and nine species are first reported from freshwater habitats. Reference specimens are provided for Diplocladiella scalaroides and Neocirrenalia nigrospora (≡ Cirrenalia nigrospora). Systematic placement of the previously introduced genera Actinocladium, Aqualignicola, and Diplocladiella is first elucidated based on the reference specimens and new collections. Species recollected from China and Thailand are also described and illustrated. The overall trees of freshwater Dothideomycetes and Sordariomycetes collected in this study are provided respectively and genera or family/order trees are constructed for selected taxa.
... In particular, through relevant research of 147 genera of fungi, it was found that 14 genera of fungi were detected for the first time in the coastal environment, among which the abundance of 2 genera-Laetisaria [26] and Spirosphaera [27]-ranked in the top 10 of all fungi. The remaining 12 fungal genera were as follows: Gibellulopsis [28], Monacrosporium [29], Spegazzinia [30], Rhizopycnis [31], Dokmaia [32], Vermispora [33], Hirsutella [34], Erythricium [35], Limonomyces [36], Entorrhiza [37], Dinemasporium [38], and Villosiclava [39]. ...
... In this study, nine genera of fungi showed significant correlations with environmental factors. Massariosphaeria, which was less well reported and was known to have been isolated from fresh water [27], was negatively correlated with TOC. Saccharomyces and Pichia showed a significant negative correlation with TN. ...
As one core of the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA), Guangdong is facing some serious coastal environmental problems. Fungi are more vulnerable to changes in coastal environments than bacteria and archaea. This study investigated the fungal diversity and composition by high-throughput sequencing and detected basic parameters of seven environmental factors (temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH, salinity, total organic carbon, total nitrogen, and total phosphorus) at 11 sites. A total of 2056 fungal operational taxonomic units (OTUs) belonging to 147 genera in 6 phyla were recovered; Archaeorhizomyces (17.5%) and Aspergillus (14.19%) were the most dominant genera. Interestingly, a total of 14 genera represented the first reports of coastal fungi in this study. Furthermore, there were nine genera of fungi that were significantly correlated with environmental factors. FUNGuild analysis indicated that saprotrophs and pathogens were the two trophic types with the highest proportions. Saprotrophs were significantly correlated with total organic carbon (TOC), total nitrogen (TN), and total phosphorus (TP), while pathogens were significantly correlated with pH. This study provides new scientific data for the study of the diversity and composition of fungal communities in coastal ecosystems.
... The sexual morphs are characterized by perithecioid ascomata, ostiolar, some with papillate apex, with or without periphyses, cellular pseudoparaphyses, fissitunicate, bitunicate asci, with ocular chambers or apical ring, wrapped various shapes of ascospores, with pigmentation and septation, with or without sheath, whereas the asexual morphs are usually coelomycetous but sometimes can be hyphomycetous [26][27][28][29][30][31]. Pleosporales mainly occur as saprobic fungi on dead leaves or stems in terrestrial or aquatic environments [26,32,33]. Pleosporales also can be endophytes, epiphytes, parasites of green leaves or stems, and lichenicolous [26,[34][35][36]. ...
Pleosporales is the largest fungal order with a worldwide distribution in terrestrial and aquatic environments. During investigations of saprobic fungi associated with mango (Mangifera indica)) in Baoshan and Honghe, Yunnan, China, fungal taxa belonging to pleosporales were collected. Morphological examinations and phylogenetic analyses of ITS, LSU, SSU, rpb2 and tef1-α loci were used to identify the fungal taxa. A new genus, Mangifericomes; four new species, namely Mangifericomes hongheensis, Neomassaria hongheensis, Paramonodictys hongheensis, and Paramonodictys yunnanensis; and six new host and country records, namely Byssosphaeria siamensis, Crassiparies quadrisporus, Paradictyoarthrinium aquatica, Phaeoseptum mali, Torula fici, and Vaginatispora amygdali, are introduced. Photoplates, full descriptions, and phylogenetic trees to show the placement of new and known taxa are provided.
... showed that Preussia and Sporormiella are closely related. Our results confirm the findings ofKruys & Wedin (2009), Mapperson et al. (2014,Zhang et al. (2009Zhang et al. ( , 2012a andCrous et al. (2018). However, insufficient sequence data together with the lack of ex-type strains of Sporormiella nigropurpurea Ellis & Everh., Chaetopreussia chadefaudii Locq.-Lin. ...
Two new endophytic species, Preussia aegilopis (Sporormiaceae) isolated from seeds of
Aegilops umbellulata and Coniochaeta tritici (Coniochaetaceae) isolated from a stem of Triticum aestivum in Iran, are described using morphology and ITS-LSU rDNA sequence analysis. Preussia aegilopis only produces a coelomycetous anamorph in culture that is distinguished from other similar anamorphs of Preussia species by having ostiolate pycnidia often covered with sparse, straight, smooth, brown, septate, unbranched setae, and abundant chlamydospores, which are uni- to multicellular (dictyosporous or botryoid), intercalary or terminal, smooth, and subhyaline to olivaceous brown. The lecythophora-like anamorph of Coniochaeta tritici is mainly characterized by producing both adelophialides with distinct collarettes and discrete, long, cylindrical philaides with barely
visible collarettes, and microcyclic conidiation occurring by monopolar to multipolar budding of mother cells having terminal, subterminal or lateral openings with collarettes. Phylogenetic trees using Maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods indicate that reussia aegilopis and Coniochaeta tritici are distinct.
... Therefore, we keep Magmopsis in Dothideomycetes incertae sedis and consider only Arthopyrenia in Arthopyreniaceae. Based on phylogenetic analysis, Arthopyreniaceae is included in Pleosporales where it is close to bambusicolous species in Roussoella and thus, the delineation of this family needs to be assessed (Nelsen et al. 2009, Schoch et al. 2009, Zhang et al. 2009b (Coppins 1988). Both asexual morph and sexual morph have been reported in Wijayawardene et al. (2017a). ...
... Notes -Neokalmusia was established to accommodate two bambusicolous taxa, N. brevispora and N. scabrispora previously referred to Kalmusia (Zhang et al. 2009b, Ariyawansa et al. 2014d). Subsequent phylogenetic studies have shown that these two species belong to Neokalmusia in Didymosphaeriaceae , Ariyawansa et al. 2014b. ...
... Most Aminiculicolaceae species are reported from freshwater habitats and are widely distributed across Austria, Italy, France, Germany, Denmark, China, Hungary and Spain [15][16][17][18]34,37]. However, with exception of Murispora aquatica and M. triseptata (basionym Pseudomassariospaheria triseptata), all species of Murispora were isolated from terrestrial habitats such as dead terrestrial stems and dead and fallen twigs [14][15][16][17][18]35]. In this study, we have introduced three new species of Murispora collected from Spain in freshwater habitats. ...
With the exception of the so-called Ingoldian fungi, the diversity and distribution of the freshwater aero-aquatic or facultative fungi are not well known in Spain. In view of that, we collected and placed into wet chambers 105 samples of submerged and decomposing plant debris from various places in Spain, looking for individuals belonging to these latter two morpho-ecological groups of fungi. As a result, we found and isolated in pure culture several fungi, the morphology of some of them belonging to the family Amniculicolaceae (order Pleosporales, class Dothideomycetes). After a careful phenotypic characterization and a phylogenetic tree reconstruction using a concatenated sequence dataset of D1-D2 domains of the 28S nrRNA gene (LSU), the internal transcribed spacer region (ITS) of the nrDNA, and a fragment of the translation elongation factor 1-alpha (tef1) gene, we report the finding of three new species of the genus Murispora: Murispora navicularispora, which produces cinnamon-colored, broadly fusiform to navicular ascospores; Murispora fissilispora, which has as a remarkable characteristic the production of both sexual and asexual morphs in vitro; and Murispora asexualis, the unique species of the genus that lacks a sexual morph. As a consequence of the phylogenetic study, we introduce the new aero-aquatic genus Fouskomenomyces, with a new combination (Fouskomenomyces cupreorufescens, formerly Spirosphaera cupreorufescens as the type species of the genus) and a new species, Fouskomenomyces mimiticus; we propose the new combinations Murispora bromicola (formerly Pseudomassariosphaeria bromicola) and Murispora triseptata (formerly Pseudomassariosphaeria triseptata); and we resurrect Massariosphaeria grandispora, which is transferred to the family Lopiostomataceae.
... The members usually stain the surface of the substrate purple and have short pedicellate asci, with hyaline or pale brown or brown, 1-to multi-septate or muriform ascospores . The family comprises Amniculicola, Murispora, Neomassariosphaeria, Pseudomassariosphaeria and Vargamyces (Zhang et al. 2009;Hyde et al. 2013;Ariyawansa et al. 2015a;Hernández-Restrepo et al. 2017). We introduce a novel saprobic genus, Fusiformispora from Clematis collections in Thailand. ...
... Members of this family are saprobes in terrestrial and aquatic habitats (Saccardo 1883;Tanaka and Harada 2003;Thambugala et al. 2015;Hashimoto et al. 2018). The family is characterized by carbonaceous ascomata with a slit-like ostiolar neck or opening (Zhang et al. 2009). A revision of Lophiostomataceae by Thambugala et al. (2015) based on multi-locus phylogeny along with the re-examination of holotype specimens revealed the boundaries of the family. ...
The cosmopolitan plant genus Clematis contains many climbing species that can be found worldwide. The genus occurs in the wild and is grown commercially for horticulture. Microfungi on Clematis were collected from Belgium, China, Italy, Thailand and the UK. They are characterized by morphology and analyses of gene sequence data using an integrated species concept to validate identifications. The study revealed two new families, 12 new genera, 50 new species, 26 new host records with one dimorphic character report, and ten species are transferred to other genera. The new families revealed by multigene phylogeny are Longiostiolaceae and Pseudomassarinaceae in Pleosporales (Dothideomycetes). New genera are Anthodidymella (Didymellaceae), Anthosulcatispora and Parasulcatispora (Sulcatisporaceae), Fusiformispora (Amniculicolaceae), Longispora (Phaeosphaeriaceae), Neobyssosphaeria (Melanommataceae), Neoleptosporella (Chaetosphaeriales, genera incertae sedis), Neostictis (Stictidaceae), Pseudohelminthosporium (Neomassarinaceae), Pseudomassarina (Pseudomassarinaceae), Sclerenchymomyces (Leptosphaeriaceae) and Xenoplectosphaerella (Plectosphaerellaceae). The newly described species are Alloleptosphaeria clematidis, Anthodidymella ranunculacearum, Anthosulcatispora subglobosa, Aquadictyospora clematidis, Brunneofusispora clematidis, Chaetosphaeronema clematidicola, C. clematidis, Chromolaenicola clematidis, Diaporthe clematidina, Dictyocheirospora clematidis, Distoseptispora clematidis, Floricola clematidis, Fusiformispora clematidis, Hermatomyces clematidis, Leptospora clematidis, Longispora clematidis, Massariosphaeria clematidis, Melomastia clematidis, M. fulvicomae, Neobyssosphaeria clematidis, Neoleptosporella clematidis, Neoroussoella clematidis, N. fulvicomae, Neostictis nigricans, Neovaginatispora clematidis, Parasulcatispora clematidis, Parathyridaria clematidis, P. serratifoliae, P. virginianae, Periconia verrucose, Phomatospora uniseriata, Pleopunctum clematidis, Pseudocapulatispora clematidis, Pseudocoleophoma clematidis, Pseudohelminthosporium clematidis, Pseudolophiostoma chiangraiense, P. clematidis, Pseudomassarina clematidis, Ramusculicola clematidis, Sarocladium clematidis, Sclerenchymomyces clematidis, Sigarispora clematidicola, S. clematidis, S. montanae, Sordaria clematidis, Stemphylium clematidis, Wojnowiciella clematidis, Xenodidymella clematidis, Xenomassariosphaeria clematidis and Xenoplectosphaerella clematidis. The following fungi are recorded on Clematis species for the first time: Angustimassarina rosarum, Dendryphion europaeum, Dermatiopleospora mariae, Diaporthe ravennica, D. rudis, Dichotomopilus ramosissimum, Dictyocheirospora xishuangbannaensis, Didymosphaeria rubi-ulmifolii, Fitzroyomyces cyperacearum, Fusarium celtidicola, Leptospora thailandica, Memnoniella oblongispora, Neodidymelliopsis longicolla, Neoeutypella baoshanensis, Neoroussoella heveae, Nigrograna chromolaenae, N. obliqua, Pestalotiopsis verruculosa, Pseudoberkleasmium chiangmaiense, Pseudoophiobolus rosae, Pseudoroussoella chromolaenae, P. elaeicola, Ramusculicola thailandica, Stemphylium vesicarium and Torula chromolaenae. The new combinations are Anthodidymella clematidis (≡ Didymella clematidis), A. vitalbina (≡ Didymella vitalbina), Anthosulcatispora brunnea (≡ Neobambusicola brunnea), Fuscohypha kunmingensis (≡ Plectosphaerella kunmingensis), Magnibotryascoma rubriostiolata (≡ Teichospora rubriostiolata), Pararoussoella mangrovei (≡ Roussoella mangrovei), Pseudoneoconiothyrium euonymi (≡ Roussoella euonymi), Sclerenchymomyces jonesii (≡ Neoleptosphaeria jonesii), Stemphylium rosae (≡ Pleospora rosae), and S. rosae-caninae (≡ Pleospora rosae-caninae). The microfungi on Clematis is distributed in several classes of Ascomycota. The analyses are based on morphological examination of specimens, coupled with phylogenetic sequence data. To the best of our knowledge, the consolidated species concept approach is recommended in validating species.
... In previous studies, species Repetophragma ontariense and Spirosphaera cupreorufescens were clustered with Amniculicola species within Amniculicolaceae (Shearer et al. 2009, Zhang et al. 2009b, Hyde et al. 2013, Wanasinghe et al. 2015 and our analyses showed the same result. However, the placement of these two species still remains uncertain, as species of Repetophragma are polyphyletic, they cluster in different families and orders of Sordariomycetes and Dothideomycetes (Shenoy et al. 2006) and most species of Spirosphaera were reported on Leotiomycetes. ...
... So, fungal red polyketides, such as azaphilone, naphtoquinone, and hydroxyanthraquinone red compounds, are most promising in this respect (Hohmann et al. 2009, Costantino et al. 2009, Bonugli et al. 2015. Most Amniculicolaceae species can produce purple stain on the substrate (Zhang et al. 2008, 2009b, c, 2012, Wanasinghe et al. 2015. Therefore, Amniculicolaceae species are potential to be pigment producers for natural colorants. ...
We are currently studying lignicolous freshwater fungi in China. In this paper, we introduce two taxonomic accounts to the family Amniculicolaceae in Pleosporales viz. Murispora aquatica sp. nov (from Yunnan) and a new record of Murispora fagicola (from Tibet). The conclusions were derived from both morphological comparisons and the results of phylogenetic analyses (concatenated ITS, LSU, SSU and TEF1-α sequence data). The new species is compared with other existing species of Murispora and comprehensive descriptions and micro-photographs are provided.
