Helminthascus Tranzschel, Trudy S. Petersb. Obschch. Est. Otd. Bot. 28: 331 (1898)

MycoBank number: MB 2258; Index Fungorum number: IF 2258; Facesoffungi number: FoF 13079; 1 morphological species.

Type species – Helminthascus arachnophthorus Tranzschel

Notes – This genus comprises a single entomogenous species (Saccardo 1902, Popov et al. 2012) and is characterised by discoid stroma, immersed perithecia, cylindrical asci and septate ascospores (Saccardo 1902).

Species

  • Helminthascus arachnophthorus