Fungalpedia – Note 2077, Lindgomycetaceae

 

Lindgomycetaceae K. Hiray., Kaz. Tanaka & Shearer

Citation when using this data: Hongsanan S et al. 2020 – Fungalpedia,  Ascomycota.

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Classification: Pleosporales, Pleosporomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

Saprobic on decaying wood submerged in freshwater or decayed stem in terrestrial habitats or pathogenic Sexual morph: Ascomata subglobose to globose, scattered to crowded, ostiolate. Neck short, central. Peridium composed of hyaline to pale brown, small, thin-walled cells. Hamathecium comprising numerous, filamentous, septate, branched, anastomosing, usually cellular, or trabeculate pseudoparaphyses. Asci 8-spored, fissitunicate, cylindrical to clavate, rounded at the apex, with an ocular chamber. Ascospores uni- to multi-septate, fusiform to cylindrical, hyaline to brown, usually covered with an entire sheath and/or bipolar mucilaginous appendages (adapted from Hirayama et al. 2010). Asexual morph: Coelomycetous. Conidiomata semi-immersed to superficial, single or aggregated, subglobose to ellipsoidal, ostiolate. Conidiomata wall composed of cells of textura angularis. Conidiophores lining the acervuli wall or reduced, branched, septate, smooth. Conidiogenous cells determinate, hyaline, smooth, cylindrical to sub-cylindrical, conidiogenesis holoblastic, bearing a single terminal conidium. Conidia unicellular, ellipsoidal, thin-walled, solitary, aseptate or septate, with or without apical and basal appendages, smooth, with or without an irregular mucilaginous sheath (adapted from Hyde 1993, Zhang et al. 2012b, Abdel-Aziz 2016a).

Notes: Lindgomycetaceae species have been collected isolated from aquatic and terrestrial environments including ponds, rivers, lakes, and irrigation canals (Hirayama et al. 2010, Abdel-Aziz & Abdel-Wahab 2010, Raja et al. 2011, Tsang et al. 2014, Hyde et al. 2016), except for Hongkongmyces which occurred on a human foot with suppurative granulomatous (Tsang et al. 2014). Shearer et al. (2009) provided molecular data and analyses of nine taxa in Lindgomycetaceae, and placed Massarina ingoldiana, Massariosphaeria typhicola, and Lophiostoma breviappendiculatum in Lindgomycetaceae. Similar studies resolved this (Abdel-Aziz 2016a, Raja et al. 2017). Neomassariosphaeria was earlier transferred to Lindgomycetaceae to accommodate Massariosphaeria typhicola (Ariyawansa et al. 2015a). However, this was not accepted by Dong et al. (2020) who retained Neomassariosphaeria in Amniculicolaceae and introduced a new genus Aquimassariosphaeria in Lindgomycetaceae. The relationships in this family have not been well-resolved. Additional morphological and molecular data are needed for this group.

Type genus: Lindgomyces K. Hiray., Kaz. Tanaka & Shearer.

 

References

Abdel-Aziz FA, Abdel-Wahab MA. 2010 – Lolia aquatica gen. et sp. nov. (Lindgomycetaceae, Pleosporales), a new coelomycete from freshwater habitats in Egypt. Mycotaxon 114, 33–42.

Abdel-Aziz FA. 2016a – The genus Lolia from freshwater habitats in Egypt with one new species. Phytotaxa 267, 279–288.

Ariyawansa HA, Hyde KD, Jayasiri SC, Buyck B et al. 2015a – Fungal diversity notes 111–252—taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions to fungal taxa. Fungal Diversity 75, 27–274.

Dong W, Wang B, Hyde KD, McKenzie EHC et al. 2020 – Freshwater Dothideomycetes. Fungal Diversity (in prep.)

Hirayama K, Tanaka K, Raja HA, Miller AN, Shearer CA. 2010 – A molecular phylogenetic assessment of Massarina ingoldiana sensu lato. Mycologia 102, 729–746.

Hyde KD, Hongsanan S, Jeewon R, Bhat DJ et al. 2016 – Fungal diversity notes 367–490: taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions to fungal taxa. Fungal Diversity 80, 1–270.

Hyde KD. 1993 – Tropical Australian freshwater fungi. vi. Tiarosporella paludosa and Clohesyomyces aquaticus gen. et sp. nov. (Coelomycetes). Australian Systematic Botany 6, 169–173.

Raja HA, Paguigan ND, Fournier J, Oberlies NH. 2017 – Additions to Lindgomyces (Lindgomycetaceae, Pleosporales, Dothideomycetes), including two new species occurring on submerged wood from North Carolina, USA, with notes on secondary metabolite profiles. Mycological Progress 16, 535–552.

Raja HA, Tanaka K, Hirayama K, Miller AN, Shearer CA. 2011 – Freshwater ascomycetes: two new species of Lindgomyces (Lindgomycetaceae, Pleosporales, Dothideomycetes) from Japan and USA. Mycologia 103, 1421–1432.

Shearer CA, Raja HA, Miller AN, Nelson P et al. 2009 – The molecular phylogeny of freshwater Dothideomycetes. Studies in Mycology 64, 145–153.

Tsang CC, Chan JF, Trendell-Smith NJ, Ngan AH et al. 2014 – Subcutaneous phaeohyphomycosis in a patient with IgG4-related sclerosing disease caused by a novel ascomycete, Hongkongmyces pedis gen. et sp. nov.: first report of human infection associated with the family Lindgomycetaceae. Medical Mycology 52, 736–747.

Zhang Y, Crous PW, Schoch CL, Hyde KD. 2012b – Pleosporales. Fungal Diversity 53, 1–221.

 

 

Entry by

Sinang Hongsanan, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory for Plant Epigenetics, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Microbial Genetic Engineering, College of Life Science and Oceanography, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, People’s Republic of China, Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50002, Thailand 

 

Published online 25 March 2026

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