Lamproconiaceae fam. nov. to accommodate Lamproconium desmazieri Author Norphanphoun, Chada The Engineering Research Center of Southwest Bio-Pharmaceutical Resources, Ministry of Education, Guizhou University, Guiyang, 550025, Guizhou Province, China & School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100, Thailand & Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100 Thailand Author Hongsanan, Sinang Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100 Thailand Author Doilom, Mingkwan School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100, Thailand & Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100 Thailand Author Bhat, Darbhe J. Formerly Department of Botany, Goa University, Goa, India & No. 128 / 1 - J, Azad Housing Society, Curca, Goa Velha, India Author Wen, Ting-Chi The Engineering Research Center of Southwest Bio-Pharmaceutical Resources, Ministry of Education, Guizhou University, Guiyang, 550025, Guizhou Province, China Author Senanayake, Indunil C. School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100, Thailand & Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100 Thailand & World Agroforestry Centre, East and Central Asia, 132 Lanhei Road, Kunming 650201, China Author Bulgakov, Timur S. Academy of Biology and Biotechnology, Southern Federal University, Rostov-on-Don 344090, Rostov region, Russia Author Hyde, Kevin D. The Engineering Research Center of Southwest Bio-Pharmaceutical Resources, Ministry of Education, Guizhou University, Guiyang, 550025, Guizhou Province, China & School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100, Thailand & Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100 Thailand & World Agroforestry Centre, East and Central Asia, 132 Lanhei Road, Kunming 650201, China & No. 128 / 1 - J, Azad Housing Society, Curca, Goa Velha, India text Phytotaxa 2016 2016-08-17 270 2 89 102 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.270.2.2 journal article 10.11646/phytotaxa.270.2.2 1179-3163 13649073 Hercospora Fr., Syst. orb. veg. (Lundae) 1: 119 (1825) Possible synonyms (See Index Fungorum 2016 ) Facesoffungi number : FoF02250 Saprobic on branches and twigs of temperate trees. Sexual morph : Stromatic tissues prosenchymatous around perithecia, delimited externally by blackened dense pseudoparenchymatous zone, interior whitish, composed of interwoven hyphae mixed with substrate cells. Ascomata perithecial, few, small, circinate, beaks converging, becoming united and erumpent through stroma surface as single large opening. Asci 8-spored, unitunicate, broadly cylindrical. Ascospores hyaline, broadly ellipsoid, one septate, wall smooth, without gelcoating, with narrow terminal and median appendages in some species. Asexual morph : Rabenhorstia sp. , Stromata prosenchymatous. Conidiomata pycnidial, uniloculate, ostiolate, ostiole surrounded by a superficial cap of sterile tissues. Conidiophores elongate. Conidia hyaline ovoid to ellipsoid, one-celled. Type species:— Hercospora tiliae (Pers.) Tul. & C. Tul. Notes:— Fries (1825) listed Sphaeria tiliae Pers. , and Sphaeria atrovirens Alb. & Schwein. , as two of the species in Hercospora . However morphologically S. tiliae has hyaline ascospores while S. atrovirens comprising opaque ascospores. Tulasne and Tulasne (1863) accepted H. tiliae as the type species of Hercospora . Petrak (1938) and Ruhland (1900) implicated Rabenhorstia tiliae (Pers.) Fr. , as the asexual morph of Hercospora tiliae . Fourteen species listed under Hercospora ( Index Fungorum, 2016 ) .