Blackwellomyces Spatafora & Luangsa-ard, IMA Fungus 8: 345 (2017)

MycoBank number: MB 820864; Index Fungorum number: IF 820864; Facesoffungi number: FoF 13123; 3 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 2 species with sequence data.

Type species – Blackwelliella cardinalis (G.H. Sung & Spatafora) Spatafora & Luangsa-ard

Notes – The genus was introduced to accommodate two species of Cordyceps based on morphological and phylogenetic analyses (Kepler et al. 2017). The asexual morph are Clonostachys, Hirsutella, Isaria, and Mariannaea species (Kepler et al. 2017). The genus infects insects and has irregularly septate ascospores that do not disarticulate into part-spores (Kepler et al. 2017).

Species

  • Blackwelliella cardinalis