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Abstract
As part of a distributional study of freshwater ascomycetes in Florida, a number of new taxa were encountered. The new taxa include six Sordariomycetes, Aniptodera megaloascocarpa sp. nov., Flammispora pulchra sp. nov., Hanliniomyces hyaloapicalis gen. et sp. nov., Lockerbia striata sp. nov., Phomatospora triseptata sp. nov. and Physalospora limnetica sp. nov., and three Dothideomycetes, Caryospora obclavata sp. nov., Lepidopterella tangerina sp. nov. and Ophiobolus shoemakeri sp. nov. These taxa are described and illustrated. Six additional species are reported from Florida for the first time; among them, two species are new reports from freshwater habitats.
We appreciate the many constructive comments provided by associate editor David Geiser and two anonymous reviewers, which greatly improved this paper. We thank Dr J.L. Crane, Dr Kevin Robertson, Dr Andrew N. Miller and Christopher Brown for their assistance with collecting. We appreciate the efforts of the rangers at Blackwater River State Forest, Apalachicola National Forest and Ocala National Forest for permission to collect within the forests. We are grateful for the aid of the superintendent of Big Cypress National Preserve and Everglades National Park for providing permits to collect aquatic fungi. This manuscript is based on work supported by the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health under (NSF Grant No. DEB 03-16496 and NIH Grant No. R01GM-60600). Support from these agencies is gratefully acknowledged. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in thisPUBLICation are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Health. This work represents a portion of a thesis (HAR) in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the doctoral degree at the Graduate College of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.