2.3.7 Lophiotremataceae

Lophiotrema rubi is recorded from collections made from algae and seagrass (Gnavi et al. 2017; Panno et al. 2013) and is referred in the present work to family Lophiotremataceae introduced by Hirayama and Tanaka (2011), based on morphological characters and molecular phylogenetic data using LSU and SSU sequence data. This is a new family introduction to the marine fungi checklist.