Darksidea D.G. Knapp, Kovács, J.Z. Groenew. & Crous, Persoonia 35: 95 (2015).

MycoBank number: MB 810760; Index Fungorum number: IF 810760; Facesoffungi number: FoF 08258; 6 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 6 species with molecular data.

Type species – Darksidea alpha D.G. Knapp, Kovács, J.Z. Groenew. & Crous, Persoonia 35: 96 (2015).

Notes – Knapp et al. (2015) introduced Darksidea to accommodate dark septate root endophytic fungi in Lentitheciaceae. Darksidea species are characterized by globose ascomata, hyaline, septate pseudoparaphyses that are intermingled among asci, clavate to ellipsoid, stipitate, 4–6-spored asci with weakly developed ocular chamber, aseptate, ellipsoid, hyaline, guttulate ascospores that are multi-seriate in asci. There are six species in Darksidea viz. D. alpha, D. beta, D. gamma, D. delta, D. epsilon and D. zeta.

Species

  • Darksidea alpha