Araucasphaeria Crous & M.J. Wingf., Persoonia 40: 335 (2018).

MycoBank number: MB 825397; Index Fungorum number: IF 825397; Facesoffungi number: FoF 06991; 1 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 1 species with molecular data.

Type species – Araucasphaeria foliorum Crous & M.J. Wingf., Persoonia 40: 335 (2018).

Notes – Crous et al. (2018c) introduced this genus since it is morphologically and phylogenetically distinct from Mycosphaerella araucariae (which has larger ascomata, asci and ascospores) and Pseudoteratosphaeria (‘ascomata aggregated in a stroma, ostioles that are lined with hyaline, branched, septate periphysoids, and ascospores encased in a prominent mucoid sheath’ fide Quaedvlieg et al. 2014). The genus is represented by only the sexual morph. See description and illustration in Crous et al. (2018c).

Species

  • Araucasphaeria foliorum