Expanding the genus <i>Neobaryopsis</i> (Calcarisporiaceae, Hypocreales): descriptions of two new species and two new combinations based on morphological and molecular data.

ABSTRACT: The genus Neobaryopsis (Calcarisporiaceae) comprises lichenicolous fungi with bright-colored perithecia, long, multiseptate, filiform ascospores, and mononematous conidiophores or distinctive synnematous-like asexual morphs. The genus was originally described from species growing on Lobariella spp., but its close morphological similarity to Neobarya long obscured its phylogenetic identity. In this study, we reassess the systematics of Neobarya-like taxa using a combination of morphological and multi-locus phylogenetic analyses (ITS, LSU, tef1, rpb2). Our results confirm that several lichenicolous species historically placed in Neobarya in fact belong to the genus Neobaryopsis, which is closely related to Calcarisporium. We desc

SUBMITTER: Darmostuk V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12612850 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature