Ectophoma Valenz.-Lopez, Cano, Crous, Guarro & Stchigel, Stud. Mycol. 90: 34 (2017).

MycoBank number: MB 819952; Index Fungorum number: IF 819952; Facesoffungi number: FoF 08221; 3 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 2 species with molecular data.

Type species – Ectophoma multirostrata (P.N. Mathur et al.) Valenzuela-Lopez, Cano, Crous, Guarro & Stchigel, Stud. Mycol. 90: 34 (2017).

≡ Ectophoma multirostrata (P.N. Mathur, S.K. Menon & Thirum.) Valenz.-Lopez, Cano, Crous, Guarro & Stchigel, Stud. Mycol. 90: 34 (2017).

Notes – Aveskamp et al. (2009) transferred taxa from Sphaeronaema to Phoma. After that Valenzuela-Lopez et al. (2018) introduced this genus to accommodate those taxa in family Didymellaceae. However, the species belonging to Ectophoma constitute a distinct clade in the multi-gene phylogenetic analysis of Didymellaceae (Valenzuela-Lopez et al. (2018). Ectophoma has conidia that are aseptate, hyaline, smooth- and thin walled, oblong to ellipsoidal, and guttulate. There are three species associated with this genus (Species Fungorum 2020).

Species

  • Ectophoma multirostrata