Exploring ascomycete diversity in Yunnan II: Introducing three novel species in the suborder Massarineae (Dothideomycetes, Pleosporales) from fern and grasses Author Phookamsak, Rungtiwa https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6321-8416 Center of Excellence in Microbial Diversity and Sustainable Utilization, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand & Department of Economic Plants and Biotechnology, Yunnan Key Laboratory for Wild Plant Resources, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, Yunnan Province, China & Honghe Center for Mountain Futures, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Honghe, 654400, Yunnan Province, China Author Hongsanan, Sinang https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0550-3152 Center of Excellence in Microbial Diversity and Sustainable Utilization, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand & Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Microbial Genetic Engineering, College of Life Sciences and Oceanography, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China Author Bhat, Darbhe Jayarama https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3800-5910 Department of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, P. 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Box 2455, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia & Vishnugupta Vishwavidyapeetam, Ashoke, Gokarna 581326, India Author Wanasinghe, Dhanushka N. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1759-3933 Department of Economic Plants and Biotechnology, Yunnan Key Laboratory for Wild Plant Resources, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, Yunnan Province, China & Honghe Center for Mountain Futures, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Honghe, 654400, Yunnan Province, China & CIFOR-ICRAF China Program, World Agroforestry (ICRAF), Kunming 650201, Yunnan Province, China & Center for Mountain Futures (CMF), Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, Yunnan Province, China Author Promputtha, Itthayakorn https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3376-4376 Center of Excellence in Microbial Diversity and Sustainable Utilization, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand Author Suwannarach, Nakarin https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2653-1913 Center of Excellence in Microbial Diversity and Sustainable Utilization, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand Author Kumla, Jaturong https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3673-6541 Center of Excellence in Microbial Diversity and Sustainable Utilization, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand Author Xie, Ning https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5866-8535 Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Microbial Genetic Engineering, College of Life Sciences and Oceanography, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China Author Dawoud, Turki M. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1444-4185 Department of Botany and Microbiology, College of Science, King Saud University, P. 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Box 2455, Riyadh 11451, Saudi Arabia Author Mortimer, Peter E. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8507-7407 Department of Economic Plants and Biotechnology, Yunnan Key Laboratory for Wild Plant Resources, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, Yunnan Province, China & Honghe Center for Mountain Futures, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Honghe, 654400, Yunnan Province, China Author Xu, Jianchu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2485-2254 Department of Economic Plants and Biotechnology, Yunnan Key Laboratory for Wild Plant Resources, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, Yunnan Province, China & Honghe Center for Mountain Futures, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Honghe, 654400, Yunnan Province, China & CIFOR-ICRAF China Program, World Agroforestry (ICRAF), Kunming 650201, Yunnan Province, China & Department of Economic Plants and Biotechnology, Yunnan Key Laboratory for Wild Plant Resources, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, Yunnan Province, China jxu@mail.kib.ac.cn Author Lumyong, Saisamorn https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6485-414X Center of Excellence in Microbial Diversity and Sustainable Utilization, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand & Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand scboi009@gmail.com text MycoKeys 2024 2024-04-16 104 9 50 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.104.112149 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/mycokeys.104.112149 1314-4049-104-9 BA6C35A352D8524293F9CFED6D649F88 Trichobotrys Penz. & Sacc., Malpighia 15(7-9): 245 (1902) [1901] Notes. Trichobotrys was introduced by Penzig and Saccardo (1902) to accommodate the type species T. pannosus [as ' pannosa ']. The genus is scarcely known and only five species are available in Index Fungorum (http://www.indexfungorum.org; accessed on 25 May 2023), of which only T. effusus [as ' effusa '] has molecular data available in GenBank. The genus is known as only a hyphomycetous asexual morph and is characterised by dark brown to black, effuse to velvety colonies, partly immersed to superficial mycelium, non-stromatic, macronematous, mononematous, dark brown to reddish-brown, verruculose or echinulate conidiophores, bearing short, smooth, fertile, often unciform lateral branches, with sterile, setiform apex, polyblastic, integrated, terminal or discrete, determinate, ellipsoidal, spherical or subspherical conidiogenous cells and catenated, in branched acropetal chains, spherical, brown, aseptate, verruculose or minutely echinulate conidia ( Ellis 1971 ; D'Souza and Bhat 2001 ). The taxonomic classification of the genus is doubtful due to the lack of molecular phylogeny. Recently, Wijayawardene et al. (2022b) treated Trichobotrys as Ascomycota genus incertae sedis , pending future study. In the present study, the novel species, T. sinensis is introduced and the phylogenetic analyses demonstrated the genus affinity in Dictyosporiaceae .