Trichosphaerella E. Bommer, M. Rousseau & Sacc., Bull. Soc. R. Bot. Belg. 29(no. 1): 261 (1890)

MycoBank number: MB 5587; Index Fungorum number: IF 5587; Facesoffungi number: FoF 13472; 7 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 1 species with sequence data.

Type species – Trichosphaerella decipiens E. Bommer, M. Rousseau & Sacc.

Notes – Trichosphaerella decipiens has tuberculate ascomata with setae and cylindrical to clavate asci with ellipsoid ascospores (Saccardo 1891, Döbbeler et al. 2015). Sequence data of T. ceratophora were provided by Lombard et al. (2015) and reveals that Trichosphaerella is closely related to Hyaloseta in Niessliaceae.

Species

  • Trichosphaerella decipiens