Echinusitheca Y. Marín, Stchigel, Dania García, Guarro, A.N. Mill. & Cano, MycoKeys 44: 91 (2018)

MycoBank number: MB 812084; Index Fungorum number: IF 812084; Facesoffungi number: FoF 10515; 1 species with sequence data.

Type species – Echinusitheca citrispora Y. Marín, Stchigel, Dania García, Guarro, A.N. Mill. & Cano

Notes – Echinusitheca was introduced to accommodate a single species E. citrispora, isolated from forest soil in North Carolina, USA. The genus is characterised by strongly setose, dark ascomata lacking ostioles with and unicellular, ellipsoidal ascospores with a depressed germ pore at each end. The asexual morph of the genus is undetermined (Marin-Felix et al. 2018).

Species

  • Echinusitheca citrispora