Melanopsamma Niessl, Verh. nat. Ver. Brünn 14: 200 (1876)

MycoBank number: MB 3079; Index Fungorum number: IF 3079; Facesoffungi number: FoF 05556; 42 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 2 species with sequence data.

Type species – Melanopsamma pomiformis (Pers.) Sacc.

Notes – Wang et al. (2015b) synonymised this genus under Stachybotrys, however, Lombard et al. (2016) resurrected it based on multigene phylogenetic analysis. The genus is characterised by mononematous, unbranched, hyaline conidiophores, phialidic, hyaline conidiogenous cells, and aseptate, hyaline to olivaceous brown to dark brown, smooth to verrucose, limoniform to obovoid to globose to ellipsoidal conidia (Lombard et al. 2016).

Species

  • Melanopsamma pomiformis