Halobyssothecium Dayar., E.B.G. Jones & K.D. Hyde, Mycological Progress 17 (10): 1165 (2018).

MycoBank number: MB 554756; Index Fungorum number: IF 554756; Facesoffungi number: FoF 03928; 1 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 1 species with molecular data.

Type species – Halobyssothecium obiones (P. Crouan & H. Crouan) Dayar., E.B.G. Jones & K.D. Hyde, Mycol. Progr. 17 (10): 1165 (2018).

≡ Pleospora obiones P. Crouan & H. Crouan, Florule Finistère (Paris): 22 (1867).

Notes – Dayarathne et al. (2018) introduced Halobyssothecium to accommodate Byssothecium obiones (= H. obiones) from salt marsh halophytes. It differs in morphology from the other members in Lentitheciaceae in having versicolored ascospores with brown central cells and hyaline end cells, which resemble Byssothecium.

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