Coniothyrium-like fungi are common wood and soil inhabitants and hyperparasites on other fungi. They belong to different fungal genera within the Pleosporales. Several isolates were obtained on wood of different Prunus species (plum, peach and nectarine) from South Africa, on Actinidia species from Italy and on Laurus nobilis from Turkey. Morphological and cultural characteristics as well as DN...

Abstract Our studies on lignicolous aquatic fungi in Thailand, Sweden, and the UK resulted collection of three new Halobyssothecium species ( H . bambusicola , phragmitis versicolor ) assigned to Lentitheciaceae (Pleosporales, Dothideomycetes). Multi-loci phylogenetic analyses combined large subunit, small internal transcribed spacers ribosomal DNA, translation elongation factor 1-alpha sequenc...

In this study, we introduce a new species Nigrograna wuhanensis, which was collected from Camellia japonica in Hubei Province, China. The established based on morphological characteristics and multi-locus phylogenetic analysis of combined SSU, LSU, ITS tef1-α sequence data. wuhanensis is characterized by scattered, immersed ascomata with long neck superfi cial the substrate, clavate short pedic...

A review is given of melanized fungi involved in human infection, including species forming budding cells and strictly filamentous representatives. Classically, they are known as "phaeoid" or "dematiaceous" fungi, and, today, agents are recognized to belong to seven orders of fungi, of which the Chaetothyriales and Pleosporales are the most important. Infections range from cutaneous or pulmonar...

The paper reports two new records of a rare fungicolous fungus Pseudotrichia mutabilis (Melanommataceae, Pleosporales) from Ukraine. Both specimens were collected within protected areas in association with xylariaceous species, Hypoxylon crocopeplum and Rosellinia corticium. provides descriptions, nomenclatural data, original illustrations the reported species. Information on substrate speciali...

The phylogeny of the genera Periconiella, Ramichloridium, Rhinocladiella and Veronaea was explored by means of partial sequences of the 28S (LSU) rRNA gene and the ITS region (ITS1, 5.8S rDNA and ITS2). Based on the LSU sequence data, ramichloridium-like species segregate into eight distinct clusters. These include the Capnodiales (Mycosphaerellaceae and Teratosphaeriaceae), the Chaetothyriales...

Massarina ingoldiana occurs worldwide on a variety of dead plant substrates in aquatic habitats. This species has been accommodated in Massarina or Lophiostoma in Pleosporales, Dothideomycetes, but the validity of either of these taxonomic placements has not been confirmed with molecular data. In addition morphological variations occur among different populations of this species causing problem...

Shiraia bambusicola P. Henn. is a pathogenic fungus of bamboo, and its fruiting bodies are regarded as folk medicine. We determined and analyzed its complete mitochondrial DNA sequence (circular DNA molecule of 39,030 bp, G + C content of 25.19%). It contains the typical genes encoding proteins involved in electron transport and coupled oxidative phosphorylation (nad1-6 and nad4L, cob and cox1-...