Neolophiotrema G.C. Ren & K.D. Hyde, 2021

Ren, Guang-Cong, Wanasinghe, Dhanushka N., Monkai, Jutamart, Hyde, Kevin D., Mortimer, Peter E., Xu, Jianchu, Pang, Aimin & Gui, Heng, 2021, Introduction of Neolophiotrema xiaokongense gen. et sp. nov. to the poorly represented Anteagloniaceae (Pleosporales, Dothideomycetes), Phytotaxa 482 (1), pp. 25-35 : 28-29

Neolophiotrema G.C. Ren & K.D. Hyde , gen. nov.

Index Fungorum Number : IF557889; Facesoffungi Number: FoF 04862

Etymology: Name reflects its morphological similarity to the genus Lophiotrema .

Saprobic on decaying wood. Sexual morph: Ascomata scattered, immersed, coriaceous, globose to subglobose, brown to dark-brown, with central ostiole. Ostioles short papillate, produced pink pigment in the inner layer of the ostioles. Peridium thin to thick walled, outer wall composed of several layers, brown to dark-brown, thin-walled cells of textura angularis, inner wall of loose cells of textura angularis. Hamathecium comprising numerous, anastomosing, hyaline, filiform, branched, septate, cellular pseudoparaphyses. Asci 8-spored, bitunicate, fissitunicate, cylindricalclavate, pedicellate. Ascospores overlapping uni to bi-seriate, 2-celled, broadly fusiform with rounded ends, straight to slightly curved, 1(–3)-septate, hyaline, smooth-walled, with a primary septum nearly median, constricted at the septum, with obvious guttules, surrounded by a wide gelatinous sheath. Asexual morph: Undetermined.

Type species:— Neolophiotrema xiaokongense G.C. Ren & K.D. Hyde

Key to genera of Anteagloniaceae

1. Ascomata superficial, with a slit .................................................................................................................................. Anteaglonium

1. Ascomata immersed to semi-immersed, without a slit.......................................................................................................................2

2. Ascospores overlapping 1–2-seriate, hyaline.....................................................................................................................................3

2. Ascospores uni-seriate, pigmented........................................................................................................................... Purpureofaciens

3. Ascomata carbonaceous, hamathecium with trabeculate pseudoparaphyses............................................................ Flammeascoma

3. Ascomata coriaceous, hamathecium with narrow cellular pseudoparaphyses.......................................................... Neolophiotrema