Melanops – Facesoffungi number: FoF 07442

Melanops Nitschke ex Fuckel, Jb. nassau. Ver. Naturk. 23–24: 225 (1870) [1869–70].

MycoBank number: MB 3078; Index Fungorum number: IF 3078; Facesoffungi number: FoF 07442; 111 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 3 species with molecualar data.

Type species: Melanops tulasnei Fuckel.

Notes: Over 100 species names are listed under Melanops in Index Fungorum (2020), but, only three species have sequence data (Jiang et al. 2018b). We were unable to obtain fresh collections to represent this genus. Thus, a drawing is provided. A description of the type species can be seen in Phillips and Alves (2009).

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