Metacapnodium – Facesoffungi number: FoF 06843

Metacapnodium Speg., Physis, Rev. Soc. Arg. Cienc. Nat. 4(no. 17): 288 (1918).

MycoBank number: MB 3137; Index Fungorum number: IF 3137; Facesoffungi number: FoF 06843; 14 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), molecular data unavailable.

Type species – Metacapnodium juniperi (W. Phillips & Plowr.) Speg.

Notes – All species in this genus produces phialidic Capnophialophora states (Hughes & Seifert 2012), and some species  produce Capnocybe and Capnosporium states (Hughes 1966, 1976). These three asexual genera were synonymized under the name Metacapnodium (Hyde et al. 2013, Rossman et al. 2016). Sequence data are needed to clarify the classification of Metacapnodium.

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