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Freshwater ascomycetes: new and noteworthy species from aquatic habitats in Florida

     Department of Plant Biology, University of Illinois, Room 265 Morrill Hall, 505 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, Illinois 61801

As part of a distributional study of freshwater ascomycetes in Florida, a number of new taxa were encountered. The new taxa include six Sordariomycetes, Aniptodera megaloascocarpa sp. nov., Flammispora pulchra sp. nov., Hanliniomyces hyaloapicalis gen. et sp. nov., Lockerbia striata sp. nov., Phomatospora triseptata sp. nov. and Physalospora limnetica sp. nov., and three Dothideomycetes, Caryospora obclavata sp. nov., Lepidopterella tangerina sp. nov. and Ophiobolus shoemakeri sp. nov. These taxa are described and illustrated. Six additional species are reported from Florida for the first time; among them, two species are new reports from freshwater habitats.

Key words: lentic, lotic, saprobic fungi, submerged wood, systematics