Davidiellomyces Crous, Persoonia 38: 251 (2017).

MycoBank number: MB 820929; Index Fungorum number: IF 820929; Facesoffungi number: FoF 06630; 2 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 2 species with molecular data.

Type species – Davidiellomyces australiensis Crous, Persoonia 38: 251 (2017).

Notes – Davidiellomyces is a monotypic genus with the type species, D. australiensis, which was collected on leaves of Cyperaceae in Australia. The sexual morph of Davidiellomyces is characterized by globose, black, ostiolate ascomata, 8-spored, bitunicate, obovoid to broadly ellipsoid asci, and multi-seriate, hyaline, guttulate, 1-septate, fusoid-ellipsoidal ascospores with obtuse ends and mucoid sheath (Crous et al. 2017b). The asexual morph is undetermined.

Species

  • Davidiellomyces australiensis