Pedumispora K.D.Hyde & E.B.G.Jones Mycological Research 96: 78 (1992). NOTES Pedumispora was described from prop roots of Rhizophora apiculata (Hyde & Jones 1992). The fungus is characterized by erumpent pustules containing 1-4 immersed ascomata, unitunicate, deliquescing asci and filiform ascospores (Hyde & Jones 1992; Klaysuban et al. 2014). Filiform ascospores and deliquescing asci are widely found in many unitunicate marine ascomycetes and are regarded as adaptations to the aquatic environment (Hyde et al. 1999, 2000). The genus shares similarities with Prosthecium and Winterella in the Diaporthales (Hyde & Jones 1992). Klaysuban et al. (2014) showed by molecular analyses that P.rhizophorae was distantly placed from the Diaporthales, and groups in the Diatrypaceae, Xylariales with strong support.

Published as part of Dayarathne, Monika C., Wanasinghe, Dhanushka N., Devadatha, B., Abeywickrama, Pranami, G, E. B., Jones, areth, Chomnunti, Putarak, Sarma, V. V., Hyde, Kevin D., Lumyong, Saisamorn, C., Eric H. & Mckenzie, 2020, Modern taxonomic approaches to identifying diatrypaceous fungi from marine habitats, with a novel genus Halocryptovalsa Dayarathne & K. D. Hyde, gen. nov., pp. 21-67 in Cryptogamie, Mycologie 20 (3) on page 56, DOI: 10.5252/cryptogamie-mycologie2020v41a3, http://zenodo.org/record/7815042