Lepidosphaeria
Lepidosphaeria Parg.-Leduc, C. r. hebd. Séanc. Acad. Sci., Paris, Sér. D 270: 2786 (1970).
Index Fungorum number: IF 2747; Facesoffungi number: FoF 04643, 1 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2022), 1 species with molecular data.
Saprobic isolated from soil. Sexual morph: Ascomata cleistothecial, black, simple or aggregated, immersed to erumpent or superficial, globose to subglobose. Hamathecium comprising numerous branched, filiform, hypha-like, septate, pseudoparaphyses, embedded in a gelatinous matrix. Asci 8-spored, bitunicate, hyaline, elongate-clavate, with a long pedicel, thick-walled, apically rounded, lacking an evident ocular chamber. Ascospores overlapping 2–3-seriate, ornamented, finely echinulate, oblong, tuberculate, 2-celled, brown to pale brown, septate, darker near the septum, constricted at the septum, minute granules, verrucose, guttulate, with obtuse to rounded ends. Asexual morph: Unknown (adapted from Doilom et al. 2018).
Type species: Lepidosphaeria nicotiae Parg.-Leduc
Notes: Lepidosphaeria is characterised by cleistothecial, black, simple or aggregated ascomata, hyaline, elongate-clavate asci, and 2–3-seriate, ornamented, finely echinulate, oblong ascospores. Schoch et al. (2009), Zhang et al. (2009b) and Wanasinghe et al. (2017) accepted Lepidosphaeria in Testudinaceae based on phylogenetic evidence. Lepidosphaeria is a distinct genus in Testudinaceae but more collections are required to confirm this taxonomic position. Molecular markers available for Lepidosphaeria are ITS, LSU, SSU and BTUB.
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