Broomella Sacc., Syll. fung. (Abellini) 2: 557 (1883)

Index Fungorum number: IF 658; MycoBank number: MB 658; Facesoffungi number: FoF 00626; 14 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 2 species with sequence data

Type species – Broomella vitalbae (Berk. & Broome) Sacc.

Notes – Broomella species have been mostly reported from Asia and Europe (Farr & Rossman 2019), as saprobes from terrestrial habitats (Li et al. 2015d, Wijayawardene et al. 2018a). The sexual morph is characterized by cylindric-elongate, unitunicate asci, with J-, discoid apical ring, bearing 2-3-septate, ellipsoid-fusiform ascospores with brown, median and hyaline, terminal cells bearing centric appendages at each end (Shoemaker & Müller 1963, Li et al. 2015d, Wanasinghe et al. 2018, Liu et al. 2019a). The asexual morph is pestalotia-like and this is yet to be confirmed by phylogeny (Wanasinghe et al. 2018, Liu et al. 2019a). Li et al. (2015d) provided an epitype for Broomella vitalbe illustrating both its sexual and asexual morphs.

Species

  • Broomella vitalbae