Clavatisporella K.D. Hyde, Mycotaxon 55: 276 (1995)

MycoBank number: MB 27472; Index Fungorum number: IF 27472; Facesoffungi number: FoF 10234; 1 morphological species.

Type speciesClavatisporella musicola K.D. Hyde, Mycotaxon 55: 276 (1995)

Notes – The monophyletic genus, Clavatisporella was introduced for a saprobe on senescent leaves of Musa in Indonesia. The genus is characterized by immersed, globose to subglobose ascomata, with broad cylindrical or clavate asci, with a subapical, J-, refractive ring and hyaline ascospores that are fusiform to clavate, 1–2 septate, with a swollen base, and a mucilaginous pad- like appendages at an apical (Hyde 1995e).

Species

  • Clavatisporella musicola