@article {1146976, title = {Overview of Phacidiales, including Aotearoamyces gen. nov. on Nothofagus}, journal = {IMA Fungus}, volume = {9}, year = {2018}, pages = {371{\textendash}382}, abstract = {The new genus\ Aotearoamyces\ is proposed to accommodate a single species that was repeatedly collected on fallen wood in\ Nothofagaceae\ forests of New Zealand and was previously misidentified as a\ Claussenomyces\ species. This monotypic genus belongs to\ Tympanidaceae, a recently erected family in\ Phacidiales.\ Aotearoamyces\ is differentiated from other\ Tympanidaceae\ by phragmospores that do not form conidia either in or outside the asci, an exciple of\ textura intricata\ with hyphae widely spaced and strongly gelatinized (plectenchyma), and apically flexuous, partly helicoid paraphyses. The asexual morph was studied in pure culture. Phylogenetic analyses of combined SSU, ITS and LSU sequences strongly support a sister relationship between the sexually typified\ Aotearoamyces\ and the asexually typified {\textquotedblleft}Collophorina{\textquotedblright} paarla\ characterized morphologically by forming endoconidia, a feature not found in the genetically distinct type species of\ Collophorina. Based on our molecular results, we place the genus\ Epithamnolia\ in the\ Mniaecia\ lineage within\ Phacidiales.}, author = {Luis Quijada and Peter R. Johnston and Jerry A. Cooper and Donald H. Pfister} }