Muelleromyces Kamat & Anahosur, Experientia 24: 849 (1968)

Index Fungorum number: IF 3284; MycoBank number: MB 3284; Facesoffungi number: FoF 13498; 1 morphological species.

Type species – Muelleromyces indicus Kamat & Anahosur

Notes – Muelleromyces is characterized by astromatic perithecia with a well-developed clypeus, 8-spored, unitunicate, evanescent asci and with a thick apical canal, and brown, unequally 2-celled ascospores (Anahosur 1968). This genus comprises one species, which parasitizes the leaves of Eugenia jambolana. and is characterized by ascospores with a wide equatorial pallid band above the septum on the large apical cell (Anahosur 1968; Kang et al. 1999a). A second species Muelleromyces variisporus has been referred to as Kamatella (Anahosur 1969).

Species

  • Muelleromyces indicus