Didymella – Facesoffungi number: FoF 07278

Didymella Sacc. ex Sacc. Syll. Fung. 1: 545 (1882).

MycoBank number: MB 1548; Index Fungorum number: IF 1548; Facesoffungi number: FoF 07278; 418 records (Species Fungorum 2020), 58 species with molecular data.

Type species – Didymella exigua (Niessl) Sacc., Michelia 2: 57 (1880).

≡ Didymosphaeria exigua Niessl, Oesterr. Bot. Z. 25: 165 (1875).

Notes – Didymella was emended to accommodate Peyronellaea and several other phoma-like species (Chen et al. 2015). They are ubiquitous and occur as pathogens and endophytes on a wide range of hosts (Chen et al. 2015, 2017, Jayasiri et al. 2017b). Most species produce chlamydospores in culture.

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