Coccodiella Hara, Bot. Mag., Tokyo 25: 224 (1910)

Index Fungorum number: IF 1139; MycoBank number: MB 1139; Facesoffungi number: FoF 13484; 21 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 5 species with sequence data.

Type species – Coccodiella arundinariae Hara

Notes – Hara (1911) introduced Coccodiella as a plant-parasitic species characterized by a stroma originating in the mesophyll, which then proliferates through the lower epidermis, forming a sessile hypostroma attached to the host tissue. Members of Coccodiella are host-specific and tropical in distribution (Mardones et al. 2017).

Species

  • Coccodiella arundinariae