Ephelis Fr., Summa veg. Scand., Section Post. (Stockholm): 370 (1849)

MycoBank number: MB 8185; Index Fungorum number: IF 8185; Facesoffungi number: FoF 13075; 4 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 2 species with sequence data.

Type species – Ephelis mexicana Fr.

Notes – The sexual morph has been linked to Atkinsonella, Balansia, Epichloe and Myriogenospora (White et al. 2003). The genus infects grasses, and produces holoblastic conidia in a slender, filiform palisade layer of conidiogenous cells (White et al. 2003, Hernández-Restrepo et al. 2016b).

Species

  • Ephelis mexicana