Calophoma Qian Chen & L. Cai, Stud. Mycol. 82: 191 (2015).
Index Fungorum number: IF 814063; MycoBank number: MB 814063; Facesoffungi number: FoF 08219; 11 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 11 species with molecular data.
Type species – Calophoma clematidina (Thüm.) Qian Chen & L. Cai, Stud. Mycol. 82: 192 (2015).
≡ Ascochyta clematidina Thüm., Bull. Soc. Imp. nat. Moscou 55: 98 (1880).
Notes – Species belonging to this genus are characterised by their asexual characters such as subglobose, subcylindrical, ellipsoidal, somewhat obclavate-fusiform conidia which are aseptate of with a single septum. These fungi develop chlamydospores which are unicellular or multicellular in culture (Chen et al. 2015). Ten species are recognised (Hyde et al. 2020a).
Species