Three new species of Luttrellia from temperate and tropical freshwater habitats.
Three pyrenomycetes collected from woody debris submerged in freshwater habitats are described as new species of Luttrellia: L. guttulata sp. nov., L. halonata sp. nov. and L. paroulospora sp. nov. A collection of L. estuarina, the type species of the genus, having ascospores surrounded by a gelatinous sheath, a characteristic not observed in the type specimen, is reported. The genus description is emended to include fungi with 4- or 8-spored asci and ascospores with or without a gelatinous sheath. Luttrellia is distinguished from other genera in the Halosphaeriaceae by hyaline, phragmoseptate, and thick-walled ascospores with or without a gelatinous sheath.
Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois, 265 Morrill Hall, 505 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801, USA. aferrer@life.uiuc.edu
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D001203:Ascomycota / Q000145:classification* / Q000166:cytology / Q000302:isolation & purification* / Q000502:physiology; D005618:Fresh Water / Q000382:microbiology*; D013172:Spores, Fungal / Q000166:cytology