Lentitheciaceae
The Lentitheciaceae are a family of fungi in the order of Pleosporales. They are found world-wide with the greatest contributions found in Europe and Australia.
In a phylogenetic study of Lophiostoma and Massarina species, Lentithecium was proposed in 2009 based on Lophiostoma fluvitale now called Lentithecium fluviatile. Lentitheciaceae is a well supported clade.
Lentitheciaceous taxa are saprobic on herbaceous and woody plants having narrow peridia, fusiform to broadly cylindrical pseudoparaphyses, hyaline ascospores with 1–3-transverse septa and containing refractive globules, surrounded by a mucilaginous sheath or extended appendage-like sheaths and asexual morphs producing stagonospora-like or dendrophoma-like asexual morphs. They are found in terrestrial or aquatic habitats.
Taxonomy
Genera accepted by the GBIF include:- Aquilomyces
- Coenosphaeria
- Darksidea
- Flavomyces
- Halobyssothecium
- Katumotoa
- Keissleriella
- Lentithecium
- Murilentithecium
- Neoophiosphaerella
- Poaceascoma
- Setoseptoria
- Suttonomyces
- Tingoldiago
- Towyspora
- Zopfinula