Warts Galore – on Three New Lamprospora De Not. Species (Pezizales) from Southern Europe and Macaronesia and a Type Revision of Three Species Described from the US by F. J. Seaver in the 1910s

Octospora entosthodontophila, a new smooth-spored bryophilous ascomycete on Entosthodon spp.

“…DNA was extracted from fresh or dried apothecia using the Quick-DNA™ Fungal/Bacterial Miniprep Kit (Zymo Research, Orange, USA). Sequence data were generated for four regions: the large subunit of ribosomal DNA (LSU) was amplified with primers NL1 and NL4 (O' Donnell 1993) or LR5 ( Vilgalys & Hester 1990), small subunit of rDNA (SSU) with primers NS1 and NS6 ( White et al 1990), internal transcribed spacers (ITS) of rDNA (ITS1–5.8S rDNA–ITS2 region) with primers ITS1F ( Gardes & Bruns 1993) and ITS4 ( White et al 1990), and the elongation factor 1-alpha (EF1-α) with primers EF1–983F ( Rehner & Buckley 2005) and EF1-octoR ( Vega et al 2021b). The PCR products were purified with Agencourt AMPure XP beads (Beckman Coulter, Massachusetts, USA).…”

“…Specimens used in the analysis and their GenBank accession numbers are listed in Table 1, with newly obtained sequences in bold letters. Newly obtained sequences of LSU, SSU, ITS and EF1-α were used together with other sequences of bryophilous Pezizales from previous studies ( Stenroos et al 2010, Lindemann et al 2014, Vega et al 2017, Egertová et al 2018a, Egertová et al 2018b, Sochorová et al 2019, Vega et al 2019, Sochorová et al 2020, Eckstein et al 2021, Sochorová et al 2021, Vega et al 2021b, Eckstein et al 2022, Janošík et al 2023), as well as Otidea concinna (Pers.) Sacc.…”

Lamprospora aberrans sp. nov. (Pezizales) – the first species of Lamprospora with hairy apothecia

“…The only genera of bryophilous Pezizales in which no hairy species were known are Filicupula ( Yao & Spooner 1996a, Döbbeler & DaVison 2021) and Lamprospora (e.g. Benkert 1987, Egertová et al 2018b, Vega et al 2019, Vega et al 2021a).…”

Bryophilous ascomycetes of North America – an overview of the recorded species

“…In some cases, the parasitic nature and species delimitation are unclear. Most of them are dealt with by Seaver (1928), Wang & Kimbrough (1992), Benkert (1998aBenkert ( , 2002, Egertová et al (2015), and Vega et al (2021). However, all North American octosporaceous species parasitizing liverworts are included.…”