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Three new species of Luttrellia from temperate and tropical freshwater habitats

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

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. parvulospora 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.

Key words: aquatic, euascomycetes, fungal systematics