Myrmaeciella Lindau, Nat. Pflanzenfam., Teil. I (Leipzig) 1(1): 478 (1897)

MycoBank number: MB 3384; Index Fungorum number: IF 3384; Facesoffungi number: FoF 13464; 2 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020).

Type species – Myrmaeciella endoleuca (Sacc.) Lindau

Notes – Myrmaeciella endoleuca has black, turbinate stromata and clavate asci with ellipsoid, verruculose ascospores (Saccardo 1880b; Rossman et al. 1999, Jaklitsch & Voglmayr 2011). Rossman et al. (1999) suggested that Myrmaeciella is allied with members of Niessliaceae.

Species

  • Myrmaeciella endoleuca