Lophiostoma

Lophiostoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Ascomycota
Class:
Dothideomycetes
Order:
Pleosporales
Family:
Lophiostomataceae
Genus:
Lophiostoma

Ces. & De Not.
Type species
Lophiostoma macrostomum
(Tode) Ces. & De Not.
Species

List of associated species[1]

Synonyms
  • Platisphaera Dumort. (1822)
  • Delacourea Fabre. (1879)
  • Lophiotrema sect. "Vivianella" Sacc. (1883)
  • Lophiosphaera subgen. Lambottiella Sacc.(1883)
  • Lophiostoma subgen. Brigantiella Sacc. (1883)
  • Lophiotricha Richon. (1885)
  • Lophidiopsis Berl. (1890)

Lophiostoma is a genus of ascomycetous fungi in the family Lophiostomataceae.[2]

Species are commonly found growing both on living and dead wood, bark of deciduous trees, on shrubs and on herbaceous hosts.[3] They are also found in freshwater, and marine environments.[3] [4][5][6]

The genus both forms fruit bodies with sexual reproducing with ascocarp in the form of a perithecium and asexual reproduction in the form of conidia.[3]

The ascocarp are usually flaskshaped or pearshaped (piriform), 0,2-0,6 mm (200-600 μm) wide, black of color and with a smooth surface without excrescence. The shape of the top of the perithecium called ostiole has a characteristic slitlike opening.[3]

They grow either on very top of the substrate with most of its whole ascocarp on the top or with only the ostiole sticking through and the rest of the fruitbody below the surface.[3]

There are many species of ascomycetes that form fruit-bodies alike those of Lophiostoma found both in class Dothidemycetes and Sordariomycetes, but the slitlike and somewhat oblong opening of the ostiole are characteristic but not exclusive.

  1. ^ "Lophiostoma".
  2. ^ Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet. 13. Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany: 1–58. Archived from the original on 2009-03-18.
  3. ^ a b c d e Holm, L; Holm, K (1988). "Studies in the Lophiostmataceae with emphasis on the Swedish species". Symb Bot Ups. 28 (2): 1–50.
  4. ^ Chesters, CGC; Bell, A (1970). "Studies in the Lophiostomataceae Sacc". Mycological Papers. 120: 1–55.
  5. ^ Barr, ME (1987). "Prodromus to class Loculoascomycetes". Massachusetts, USA. Published by the Author.
  6. ^ Barr, ME (1992). "Notes on the Lophiostomataceae (Pleosporales)". Mycotaxon. 45: 191–221.