Three Species ofLophodermiumfrom the Himalayas

Lophodermium on needles of conifers from Yunnan Province, China

“…Notes The specimens we collected agree well with the type species on Pinus kesiya described by Minter and Sharma (1982). This species is easily distinguished from other Lophodermium species on pines by the ascomata, which are black, shiny, and acute on both ends.…”

Rhytismataceae in New Zealand 1. Some foliicolous species ofCoccomycesde Notaris andPropolis(Fries) Corda

“…C. globosus had pycnidia similar to those described by Minter and Sharma (1982) The generic limits between many groups of genera within the Rhytismataceae are at present uncertain. Coccomyces and Lophodermium share the microscopic characters of intraepidermal ascocarps, cylindric to subclavate asci, filiform ascospores, and swollen paraphyses.…”

“…However, as sporulating cultures could not always be produced, some teleomorph-anamorph connections were made simply from evidence that both stages were consistently found in close proximity on the host leaf (cf. Minter & Sharma 1982).…”

“…The ascospores are surrounded by a gelatinous sheath. Anamorphs are assigned to a number of genera including Leptostroma Fries, Leptothyrina Hohnel (Minter 1981, Minter & Sharma 1982, Minter & Hettige 1983, Leptothyrium Kunze (Sherwood 1980), or Crandallia Ellis & Saccardo (Powell 1973). In addition, Minter & Sharma (1982) described another anamorph which, although similar to Leptostroma and Leptothyrium, could not be placed in any recognised genus.…”

Morpho-phylogenetic evidence reveals new species in Rhytismataceae (Rhytismatales, Leotiomycetes, Ascomycota) from Guizhou Province, China

“…Terriera karsti is not significantly distinguished from T. camelliicola, based only on morphological characters as they share similar-sized asci (110-122.5 × 5.5-7 μm vs. 85-120 × 5.5-6.5 μm) and ascospores (55-66 × 1.5-2 μm vs. 50-70 × 1 μm) (Johnston 2001). However, the ascospores of T. camelliicola are covered by a 0.5 μm wide gelatinous sheath, while this is not observed in T. karsti (Sharma 1982). In order Li et al 2015a to clarify their affinity, the recommendations of species delineation from Jeewon and Hyde (2016) were followed and the comparison of each gene region between these two taxa is processed and showed that there are 9/840 bp (1%) and 10/694 bp (14.4%) differences in LSU and mtSSU regions, respectively, while T. karsti can be easily differentiated from T. thailandica by its larger asci (110-122.5 × 5.5-7 μm vs. 80-105 × 3.4-6.6 μm) and ascospores (55-66 × 1.5-2 μm vs. 38-60 × 1-1.5 μm) (Hyde et al 2016).…”