Macrohilum – Facesoffungi number: FoF 02118

Macrohilum H.J. Swart, Trans. Br. mycol. Soc. 90(2): 288 (1988)

MycoBank number: MB 11123; Index Fungorum number: IF 11123; Facesoffungi number: FoF 02118; 1 species with sequence data.

Type species – Macrohilum eucalypti H.J. Swart

Notes – The monotypic genus Macrohilum was introduced by Swart (1988a) with M. eucalypti, the type species. Macrohilum resembles coniothyrium-like taxa but is phylogenetically distinct as it has a protruding hilum (Crous et al. 2015a, Wijayawardene et al. 2016b). Furthermore, the four base pairs differences observed in their ITS sequences suggest that the New Zealand isolates may probably represent a novel Macrohilum species.

Figure 155 – Macrohilum eucalypti (a. DAR 59000, holotype; b-g. CPC 19421, epitype). a Conidioma. b Developing conidium attach to conidiogenous cell. c Developed conidia attach to conidiogenous cells. d-g Conidia. Scale bars: a = 100 μm, b-f = 5 μm (a is extracted from Wijayawardene et al. 2016b, which was redrawn from Swart 1988a).

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