Flexuomyces Crous, gen. nov.
MycoBank number: MB 839495; Index Fungorum number: IF 839495; Facesoffungi number: FoF;
Etymology: Name refers to the flexuous nature of its conidia.
Classification: — Tympanidaceae, Leotiales, Leotiomycetes.
Conidiomata convex with a short stipe arising from a basal stroma of brown textura epidermoidea; stipe short, of brown, parallel cylindrical cells, fanning outward towards umbrella-like apex, which is pale brown, giving rise to cylindrical, hyaline conidiogenous cells that taper at apex; conidiomata brown, sessile with a crystalline mucoid conidial mass; wall of several layers of brown textura epidermoidea. Conidiophores septate, cylindrical, tightly aggregated; on inner plane forming a layer of phialidic conidiogenous cells, hyaline, smooth. Conidia single, hyaline, smooth, subcylindrical to acicular, multi-septate, guttulate, apex subobtuse, base truncate, conidia spirally twisted in middle with apical and basal part in different planes, widest at basal septum, tapering to truncate hilum.
Type species. Flexuomyces asteliae Crous .
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