Exopassalora Videira & Crous, in Videira et al., Stud. Mycol. 87: 380 (2017).

MycoBank number: MB 822589; Index Fungorum number: IF 822589; Facesoffungi number: FoF 07641; 1 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 1 species with molecular data.

Type species – Exopassalora zambiae (Crous & T.A. Cout.) Videira & Crous, in Videira et al., Stud. Mycol. 87: 380 (2017).

≡ Passalora zambiae Crous & T.A. Cout., in Crous et al., Stud. Mycol. 50(1): 209 (2004).

Notes – This genus is phytopathogenic and is characterised by brown hyphae, with dark brown chlamydospore-like hyphal swellings, brown conodiophores arising from the mycelium, proliferating sympodially, cells terminal and intercalary conidiogenous cells, with conspicuous, darkened, refractive conidiogenous loci. Conidia are ellipsoidal, tapering to subtruncate, straight or slightly curved, branched chains and brown. Phylogenetic analyses placed this genus in Phaeothecoidiellaceae (Videira et al. 2017, this study).

Species

  • Exopassalora zambiae