Lentistoma
Lentistoma A. Hashim., K. Hiray. & Kaz. Tanaka
Index Fungorum number: IF823136
Saprobic on woody plant or submerged wood. Sexual morph: Ascomata scattered, immersed to erumpent, subglobose or conical, with ostiolar, elongate, laterally compressed neck, surrounded by a well-developed clypeus or with ostiolate, short papilla. Peridium composed of globose, brown or black cells. Pseudoparaphyses numerous, cellular, hypha-like, narrow, indistinctly septate, branching and anastomosing. Asci 8-spored, bitunicate, fissitunicate, cylindrical-clavate. Ascospores fusiform, hyaline, septate, with or without a bipolar sheath (Hashimoto et al. 2018). Asexual morph: Undetermined.
Type species: Lentistoma bipolare (K.D. Hyde) A. Hashim., K. Hiray. & Kaz. Tanaka
Notes: Lentistoma was introduced based on Massarina bipolaris K.D. Hyde (Hashimoto et al. 2018), which was collected from woody plant or submerged wood. Dong et al. (2020) introduced the second Lentistoma species which was collected from submerged wood in Thailand. (Notes from Dong et al. 2020)
List of freshwater Lentistoma species
Lentistoma aquaticum W. Dong, H. Zhang & K.D. Hyde, Fungal Divers 105: 445 (2020)
Freshwater distribution: Thailand (Dong et al. 2020)
Lentistoma bipolare (K.D. Hyde) A. Hashim., K. Hiray. & Kaz. Tanaka, Stud. Mycol. 90: 169 (2018)
Basionym: Massarina bipolaris K.D. Hyde, Nova Hedwigia 61(1-2): 131 (1995)
Synonymy: Lophiostoma bipolare (K.D. Hyde) E.C.Y. Liew, Aptroot & K.D. Hyde, Mycologia 94(5): 812 (2002)
Freshwater distribution: Australia (Hyde 1995b; Hyde and Aptroot 1998), Brunei (Ho et al. 2001), China (Hyde 1995a; Tsui et al. 2000; Ho et al. 2001, 2002; Luo et al. 2004), Japan (Hashimoto et al. 2018), Malaysia (Hyde and Aptroot 1998), Seychelles (Hyde and Goh 1998), South Africa (Hyde and Goh 1998), Thailand (Sivichai et al. 2000, 2002), USA (Raja et al. 2009)
Key to freshwater Lentistoma species
1. Ascomata with ostiolar, elongate, laterally compressed neck, surrounded by a well-developed clypeus, ascospores 20–33 × 5.5–9(–11) μm, with a narrow sheath…………………………………………………………………………………………………L. bipolare
1. Ascomata with ostiolar, short papilla, ascospores 38–43 × 6.5–8.5 μm, without sheath………………………………………………………………………………………...……L. aquaticum
References
Dong W, Wang B, Hyde KD, McKenzie EHC, Raja HA, Tanaka K, Abdel-Wahab MA, Abdel-Aziz FA, Doilom M, Phookamsak R, Hongsanan S, Wanasinghe DN, Yu X-D, Wang G-N, Yang H, Yang J, Thambugala KM, Tian Q, Luo Z-L, Yang J-B, Miller AN, Fournier J, Boonmee S, Hu D-M, Nalumpang S, Zhang H (2020) Freshwater Dothideomycetes. Fungal Divers 105:319–575
Hashimoto A, Hirayama K, Takahashi H, Matsumura M, Okada G, Chen CY, Huang JW, Kakishima M, Ono T, Tanaka K (2018) Resolving the Lophiostoma bipolare complex: generic delimitations within Lophiostomataceae. Stud Mycol 90:161–189
Ho WH, Hyde KD, Hodgkiss JI, Yanna (2001) Fungal communities on submerged wood from streams in Brunei, Hong Kong, and Malaysia. Mycol Res 105:1492–1501
Ho WH, Yanna Hyde KD, Hodgkiss IJ (2002) Seasonality and sequential occurrence of fungi on wood submerged in Tai Po Kau Forest Stream, Hong Kong. Fungal Divers 10:21–43
Hyde KD (1995a) The genus Massarina, with a description of M. eburnea and an annotated list of Massarina names. Mycol Res 99:291–296
Hyde KD (1995b) Tropical Australian freshwater fungi. VII. New genera and species of Ascomycetes. Nova Hedwigia 61:119–140
Hyde KD, Aptroot A (1998) Tropical freshwater species of the genera Massarina and Lophiostoma (ascomycetes). Nova Hedwigia 66:489–502
Hyde KD, Goh TK (1998) Fungi on submerged wood in the Riviere St Marie-Louis, The Seychelles. S Afr J Bot 64:330–336
Luo J, Yin J, Cai L, Zhang KQ, Hyde KD (2004) Freshwater fungi in Lake Dianchi, a heavily polluted lake in Yunnan, China. Fungal Divers 16:93–112
Raja HA, Schmit JP, Shearer CA (2009) Latitudinal, habitat and substrate distribution patterns of freshwater ascomycetes in the Florida Peninsula. Biodivers Conserv 18:419–455
Sivichai S, Jones EBG, Hywel-Jones NL (2000) Fungal colonisation of wood in a freshwater stream at Khao Yai National Park, Thailand. Fungal Divers 5:71–88
Sivichai S, Jones EBG, Hywel-Jones NL (2002) Fungal colonisation of wood in a freshwater stream at Tad Ta Phu, Khao Yai National Park, Thailand. Fungal Divers 10:113–129
Tsui KM, Hyde KD, Hodgkiss IJ (2000) Biodiversity of fungi on submerged wood in Hong Kong streams. Aquat Microb Ecol 21:289–298
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