Fungalpedia – Note 2328, Lophiotrema

 

Lophiotrema. Sacc.

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

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Classification: LophiostomataceaePleosporalesPleosporomycetidaeDothideomycetesPezizomycotinaAscomycotaFungi

 

Notes – Lophiotrema was initially placed under Lophiostomataceae. Later it was transferred to Lophiotremataceae by Hirayama & Tanaka (2011). This genus has ascomata with a slit-like ostiole and uniform thickness of peridium, asci with a short stipe and pycnidial asexual morphs (Tanaka & Harada 2003).

 

Type species: Lophiotrema nucula (Fr.) Sacc., Michelia 1 (no. 3): 338. (1878).

Sphaeria nucula Fr., K. svenska Vetensk-Akad. Handl., ser. 3 38: 266 (1817).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Lophiotrema.

 

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Figure 1Lophiotrema nucula (redrawn from culture 4126 in Tanaka & Harada 2003c). a Cross section of ascoma, b Ascus, c Ascospores. Scale bars: a = 60 μm, b, c = 10 μm.

 

References

Hirayama K, Tanaka K. 2011 – Taxonomic revision of Lophiostoma and Lophiotrema based on reevaluation of morphological characters and molecular analyses. Mycoscience 52, 401–412.

 

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 17 April 2026