Monosporascus Pollack & Uecker, Mycologia 66(2): 348 (1974)

Index Fungorum number: IF 3260; MycoBank number: MB 3260; Facesoffungi number: FoF 13143; 4 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 3 species with sequence data.

Type species – Monosporascus cannonballus Pollack & Uecker

Notes – Monosporascus was introduced by Pollack & Uecker (1974) with type species M. cannonballus to accommodate a fungus obtained from necrotic muskmelon roots. The genus is characterised by pyriform asci and the formation of one (rarely two) single large, sphaerical ascospores (Pollack & Uecker 1974).

Species

  • Monosporascus cannonballus