New Taxa of the Family Amniculicolaceae (Pleosporales, Dothideomycetes, Ascomycota) from Freshwater Habitats in Spain.

With the exception of the so-called Ingoldian fungi, the diversity and distribution of the freshwater aero-aquatic or facultative fungi are not well known in Spain. In view of that, we collected and placed into wet chambers 105 samples of submerged and decomposing plant debris from various places in Spain, looking for individuals belonging to these latter two morpho-ecological groups of fungi. As a result, we found and isolated in pure culture several fungi, the morphology of some of them belonging to the family (order , class ). After a careful phenotypic characterization and a phylogenetic tree reconstruction using a concatenated sequence dataset of D1-D2 domains of the 28S nrRNA gene (), the internal transcribed spacer region (ITS) of the nrDNA, and a fragment of the translation elongation factor 1-alpha () gene, we report the finding of three new species of the genus : , which produces cinnamon-colored, broadly fusiform to navicular ascospores; , which has as a remarkable characteristic the production of both sexual and asexual morphs in vitro; and , the unique species of the genus that lacks a sexual morph. As a consequence of the phylogenetic study, we introduce the new aero-aquatic genus , with a new combination (, formerly as the type species of the genus) and a new species, ; we propose the new combinations (formerly ) and (formerly ); and we resurrect , which is transferred to the family Lopiostomataceae.