Three new species in Lentistoma, Neolindgomyces, and Ophiocreas from freshwater habitats.

Three new saprobic fungal species—Lentistoma multiseptata, Neolindgomyces aquaticus, and Ophioceras jiangshanense—were identified from decaying wood in freshwater habitats in Jiangxi and Zhejiang, China.

• Why it matters: Freshwater fungal diversity remains incompletely documented, and distinguishing closely related saprobic taxa requires combined morphology and multilocus phylogenetic evidence.
• What they did: Fungal isolates from decaying wood were analyzed using multilocus sequencing of ITS1-5.8S-ITS2, 28S, 18S, tef1, rpb1, and rpb2, followed by maximum likelihood and Bayesian phylogenetic analyses.
• The result: Morphological measurements of ascomata, asci, and ascospores together with DNA sequence data separated each species from other members of its genus, enabling formal description and comparison with similar taxa.

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