Hysteropatella Rehm, Rabenhorst’s Kryptogamen-Flora, Pilze – Ascomyceten 1(3): 367 (1890).
MycoBank number: MB 2469;Index Fungorum number: IF 2469; Facesoffungi number: FoF 00351; 7 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 3 species with molecular data.
Type species: Hysteropatella prostii (Duby) Rehm, Rabenhorst’s Kryptogamen-Flora, Pilze – Ascomyceten 1(3): 367 (1890).
≡ Hysterium prostii Duby, Mém. Soc. Phys. Hist. nat. Genève 16(1): 38 (1861) [1862].
Note: Hysteropatella is characterized by hysterothecial ascomata, carbonaceous excipulum, bitunicate asci and reniform to ellipsoid or fusoid, 3-septate ascospores (Yacharoen et al. 2015).
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