Knufia L.J. Hutchison & Unter., in Hutchison, Untereiner & Hiratsuka, Mycologia 87(6): 903 (1996) [1995]

MycoBank number: MB 27605; Index Fungorum number: IF 27605, Facesoffungi number: FoF 10399, 19 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2021), 12 species with molecular data.

Saprobic or Pathogeneric on leaves or humans in terrestrial habitats. Sexual morph: Undetermined. Asexual morph: hyphomycetous. Colonies in axenic culture black, slow-growing. Hyphae cylindrical to moniliform, subhyaline to brown, septate, smooth-walled. Conidiogenous cells holoblastic, terminal or lateral, produced on undifferentiated hyphae. Conidia obovate to cylindrical, subhyaline to brown, aseptate to multiseptate. Phialides obclavate. Phialoconidia cylindrical to pyriform, hyaline, aseptate.

Type species: Knufia cryptophialidica L.J. Hutchison & Unter., in Hutchison, Untereiner & Hiratsuka, Mycologia 87(6): 903 (1996) [1995]