Discosphaerina Höhn., Sber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-naturw. Kl., Abt. 1 126(4-5): 353 (1917)

MycoBank number: MB 1667; Index Fungorum number: IF 1667; Facesoffungi number: FoF 06447; 21 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 1 species with sequence data.

Type species – Discosphaerina discophora Höhn.

Notes – Discosphaerina cytisi is the only species in this genus with sequence data (Vu et al. 2019). Species occur on leaves and stems of various plants worldwide, as saprobes, endophytes, and plant pathogens (Höhnel 1917b, Petrak 1924, 1927, 1934, 1941, Gonzales-Menendez et al. 2014, Godeas et al. 1985, Holm et al. 1999). Discosphaerina has gregarious, often two or three confluent, semi-immersed ascomata formed under a clypeus, cylindric-clavate asci with a J+, apical ring and hyaline, ellipsoid, aseptate ascospores (Höhnel 1917b, 1919).

Species

  • Discosphaerina discophora