Meliolaster – Facesoffungi number: FoF 06738

Meliolaster Höhn., Ber. dt. bot. Ges. 35(10): 701 (1918).

MycoBank number: MB 3102; Index Fungorum number: IF 3102; Facesoffungi number: FoF 06738; 2 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), molecular data unavailable.

Type species: Meliolaster clavisporus (Pat.) Höhn., Ber. dt. bot. Ges. 35(10): 701 (1918).

≡ Meliola clavispora Pat., J. Bot., Paris 4: 61 (1890).

Notes: Thyriotheica in Meliolaster are composed of radially arranged of cells, which open by star-like fissures when mature. Meliolaster is similar to Batistinula and Halbania in having 3-septate ascospores, but differs in the presence and shape of appressoria on the hyphae.

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