Myriogenospora G.F. Atk., Bull. Torrey bot. Club 21(5): 225 (1894)

MycoBank number: MB 3371; Index Fungorum number: IF 3371; Facesoffungi number: FoF 13089; 4 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 1 species with sequence data.

Type species – Myriogenospora paspali G.F. Atk.

Notes – Myriogenospora atramentosa causes “tangle top disease” of mang grasses (White et al. 2003). The asexual morph is ephelis-like (White & Glenn 1994). The genus infects grasses producing linear, hard, black stromata, immersed, subglobose perithecia and ascospores which disarticulate into cylindrical part-spores (White and Glenn 1994).

Species

  • Myriogenospora paspali