Chromendothia citrina Lar.N. Vassiljeva, Nizshie Rasteniya, Griby i Mokhoobraznye Dalnego Vostoka Rossii,
Griby. Tom 4. Pirenomitsety i Lokuloaskomitsety (Sankt-Petersburg): 172 (1998)
Illustration: See Vasilyeva et al. (2007).
Saprobic. Sexual morph: Stromata 2–4 × 1.5–2 mm, immersed, valsoid, erumpent through the bark with bright yellow, pulvinate ectostromatic disc studded with greenish or olivaceous ostioles at the surface becoming dark in age;
perithecia polystichous, 300–400 μm diam. Asci 40–45 × 4–5 μm, paraphysate, cylindrical, with up to 40 μm long stalks, apical ring chitinoid. Ascospores 5–7 × 3–3.5 μm, uniseriate, one-celled, ellipsoid, brown. Asexual morph: Undetermined (description based on Vasilyeva et al. 2007).
Notes: Chromendothia was introduced and typified by C. appendiculata. This genus currently comprises three species. Chromendothia shares morphological characters with many taxonomic groups. Stromatic characters of Chromendothia are shared by hypocreaceous fungi and some diaporthalean members. However, both hypocreaceous and cryphonectriaceous pyrenomycetes have aparaphysate centrum with sessile asci while species of Chromendothia possess paraphysate centrum and asci with fascicles. Molecular data proved that Chromendothia is a genus in Cryphonectriaceae (Vasilyeva et al. 2007).