Lentistoma bipolare
Lentistoma bipolare (K.D. Hyde) A. Hashim., K. Hiray. & Kaz. Tanaka, in Hashimoto et al., Stud. Mycol. 90: 169 (2018).
≡ Massarina bipolaris K.D. Hyde, Nova Hedwigia 61(1-2): 131 (1995).
Index Fungorum number: IF 823137; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11579, Fig. 1
Description: see Hashimoto et al. (2018).
Material considered: see Hashimoto et al. (2018).
Fig. 1 Lentistoma bipolare (re-drawn from Fig. 6 in Hashimoto et al. 2018). a Appearance of ascomata on host substrate. b Longitudinal section through ascoma. c Peridium. d Pseudoparaphyses. e, f Asci. g, h Ascospores. Scale bars: a = 100 μm, b = 50 μm, c–f = 10 μm, g, h = 5 μm.
Importance and distribution
Lentistoma comprises only one species known on submerged wood in Asia (Hong Kong).
References
Hashimoto A, Hirayama K, Takahashi H, Matsumura M et al. 2018 – Resolving the Lophiostoma bipolare complex: Generic delimitations within Lophiostomataceae. Studies in Mycology 90, 161–189.
Hirayama K, Tanaka K. 2011 – Taxonomic revision of Lophiostoma and Lophiotrema based on reevaluation of morphological characters and molecular analyses. Mycoscience 52, 401–412.
Hyde KD, Jones EBG, Liu JK, Ariyawansa H et al. 2013 – Families of Dothideomycetes. Fungal Diversity 63, 1–313.
Hyde KD. 1995 – Tropical Australian freshwater fungi. VII. New genera and species of Ascomycetes. Nova Hedwigia 61, 119–140.
Liew EC, Aptroot A, Hyde KD. 2002 – An evaluation of the monophyly of Massarina based on ribosomal DNA sequences. Mycologia 94, 803–813.
Tanaka K, Hosoya T. 2008 – Lophiostoma sagittiforme sp. nov., a new ascomycete (Pleosporales, Dothideomycetes) from Island Yakushima in Japan. Sydowia 60, 131–145.
Thambugala KM, Hyde KD, Tanaka K, Tian Q et al. 2015 – Towards a natural classification and backbone tree for Lophiostomataceae, Floricolaceae, and Amorosiaceae fam.nov. Fungal Diversity 74, 199–266.
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