Lithohypha Selbmann & Isola, in Wijayawardene et al. Fungal Diversity 86(1): 258 (2017)
MycoBank number: MB 819853; Index Fungorum number: IF 819853; Facesoffungi number: FoF 10400; 3 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2021), 3 species with molecular data.
Isolated from marble stone or ornamental limestone. Sexual morph: Undetermined. Asexual morph: Colonies growing slowly, cauliflower-shaped, dark brown, velvety with irregularly lobate margin in obverse, black in reverse. Hyphae branched, pale brown, composed of simple to multi-septate, catenate cells produced by enteroblastic proliferation. Globose cells frequently produced intercalarly, terminarly or laterally, 1-multicellular, sometimes with endoconidia.
Type species: Lithohypha guttulata Selbmann & Isola
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