Fracchiaea Sacc., Atti Soc. Veneto-Trent. Sci. Nat. 2(1): 163 (1873)

MycoBank number: MB 2008; Index Fungorum number: IF 2008; Facesoffungi number: FoF 10310; 22 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 2 species with sequence data.

Type species – Fracchiaea heterogenea Sacc.

Notes – Fracchiaea heterogenea has clavate, polysporous asci and oblong ascospores (Saccardo 1873). The genus was placed in Coronophoraceae (Müller & von Arx 1973, Subramanian & Sekar 1990) and Mugambi & Huhndorf (2010) transferred it to Nitschkiaceae based on multi-gene analysis.

Species

  • Fracchiaea heterogenea