Comminutisporaceae Abdollahz. & Crous, in Abdollahzadeh, Groenewald, Coetzee, Wingfield & Crous, Stud. Mycol. 95: 391 (2020)

Index Fungorum Number: IF 833142; Facesoffungi Number: FoF 15668

Etymology: Name refers to the genus Comminutispora.

Saprobic. Sexual morph: Ascomata pseudothecial, immersed, uniloculate, separate. Asci bitunicate, 8-spored. Pseudoparaphyses absent, hamathecial tissue abundant, ostiolar canal periphysate. Ascospores muriformly septate, forming secondary ascospores within the ascus. Hyphae hyaline, becoming olivaceous, forming hyaline, aseptate endoconidia.

Type genus – Comminutispora A.W. Ramaley (asexual morph Hyphospora A.W. Ramaley).