Morrisiella Saikia & A.K. Sarbhoy, Mycologia 77(2): 318 (1985)

MycoBank number: MB 11132; Index Fungorum number: IF 11132; Facesoffungi number: FoF 13068; 1 species with sequence data.

Type species – Morrisiella indica Saikia & A.K. Sarbhoy

Notes – Saikia & Sarbhoy (1985) introduced the monotypic genus Morrisiella based on M. indica. Species of this genus are characterised by dark brown conidiophores, monoblastic, discrete, ampulliform conidiogenous cells, lateral or terminal on the conidiophore, and obclavate, golden brown to olivaceous brown, multipseudoseptate conidia (Saikia & Sarbhoy 1985). Shenoy et al. (2010) confirmed phylogenetic placement of Paliphora in Chaetosphaeriaceae based on LSU sequence data and this was accepted by Seifert et al. (2011). Similar results were obtained by Lin et al. (2019) and is followed in this paper.

Species

  • Morrisiella indica