Kretzschmaria Fr., Summa veg. Scand., Sectio Post. (Stockholm): 409 (1849)

Index Fungorum number: IF 2589; MycoBank number: MB 2589; Facesoffungi number: FoF 03052; 34 morphological species (Pourmoghaddam et al. 2018, Species Fungorum 2020), 11 species with sequence data.

Type species – Kretzschmaria clavus (Fr.) Sacc.

Notes – Kretzschmaria was established by Fries (1849) which is similar to Xylaria. The genus is characterized by pulvinate or effused-pulvinate stromata attached to the substrate by narrow connectives, or clavate, turbinate, obconical, peltate-discoid, often aggregated into a crust- like mass. Pourmoghaddam et al. (2018) provided an update for the genus while introducing two new species K. hedjaroudei and K. iranica from Iran.

Species