Clypeosphaeria Fuckel, Jb. nassau. Ver. Naturk. 23-24: 117 (1870)

MycoBank number: MB 1125; Index Fungorum number: IF 1125; Facesoffungi number: FoF 02104; 33 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 3 species with sequence data.

Type species – Clypeosphaeria mamillana (Fr.) Lambotte

Notes – Clypeosphaeria is characterized by immersed to erumpent, dark pigmented ascomata, cylindrical to broadly cylindrical asci, with J-, or J+, apical ring and ellipsoidal to fusiform, unicellular to septate, smooth-walled to ornamented or striate, hyaline to dark brown ascospores, sometimes with sheaths or appendages (Saccardo 1883c, Kang et al. 1999c). In this entry we illustrate Clypeosphaeria mamillana.

Species

  • Clypeosphaeria mamillana