TY  - JOUR
JO  - Ascomycete.org
JF  - Ascomycete.org
SN  - 2100-0840
PB  - Ascomycete.org
TI  - Morphotaxonomic revision of Ombrophila species on herbaceous, in particular monocotyledonous hosts
AU  - Baral,Hans-Otto
VL  - 14
IS  - 2
SP  - 51
EP  - 66
PY  - 2022
Y1  - 2022/04/25
DA  - 2022/04/25
DO  - 10.25664/art-0346
UR  - https://doi.org/10.25664/art-0346
AB  - Three species growing on monocotyledonous hosts in semiaquatic habitats are accepted within the predominantly lignicolous genus Ombrophila: O. pileata, O. costantinii, and O. ambigua. This result is based on the personal reexamination of the type specimens of O. ambigua, O. aquosa, O. pileata, O. longispora, and O. lacustris, and various non-type collections. Together with the illustrated protologues of O. costantinii, O. helotioides, and Leotiella caricicola, the following synonymy could be established: O. longispora, O. lacustris, and O. helotioides are certain, probable, or possible synonyms of O. pileata, respectively, Leotiella caricicola is a synonym of O. costantinii, and O. aquosa is a possible synonym of O. ambigua. The examined type collection of O. pileata turned out to be a mixture comprising also O. costantinii. Problems regarding species delimitation based on morphological variation are discussed. Two collections on dicotyledonous herbs, treated here as O. aff. ambigua, could represent a species of its own. The correlation between ascospore shape (elongated vs. broadly ellipsoid) and inhabited substrate (herbaceous vs. woody) suggests that the three accepted herbicolous species form a natural group, for which the genus Leotiella, previously synonymised with Cudonia, is reduced to a subgenus of Ombrophila. Ombrophila costantinii is proposed as a new combination based on Helotium costantinii.
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