2.3.18 Trichomeriaceae

Chomnunti et al. (2012) in a phylogenetic study, showed that the Trichomerium species (type species T. co ff eicola), form a monophyletic clade within Chaetothyriales and established the new family Trichomeriaceae . Members of Trichomerium are generally foliar epiphytes (sooty moulds), mostly occurring on the surface of living leaves as ascostromata with setae with dark brown mycelia (Chomnunti et al. 2012). Genera assigned to the family include: Bradymyces, Lithohypha, Neostrelitziana, and Knufa. Knu fi a is a dematiaceous hyphomycetous genus introduced by Hutchison et al. (1995) with K. cryptophialidica as the type species. Two marine Knufa species are known: Knu fi a petricola isolated from the green marine alga Flabellia petiolata (Gnavi et al. 2017); K. epidermidis isolated from deep sea sediments (Wei et al. 2018).