Neochalara – Facesoffungi number: FoF

Neochalara Crous, gen. nov.

MycoBank number: MB 841798; Index Fungorum number: IF 841798; Facesoffungi number: FoF;

Etymology: Name refers to the genus Chalara, to which it is morphologically similar.

Classification: — Pezizellaceae, Rhytismatales, Leotiomy­ cetes.

Mycelium consisting of hyaline, smooth-walled, branched, septate hyphae. Conidiophores arising from bulbous base, or as extension of hyphae, frequently aggregated, cylindrical, brown, erect, thick-walled, unbranched, septate, with terminal conidiogenous cells. Conidiogenous cells phialidic, brown, smooth-walled, consisting of a venter that gradually merges into a cylindrical collarette that is pale brown. Conidia in long, unbranched chains, cylindrical with both ends truncate with marginal frill, medianly 1-septate, hyaline, guttulate, smooth-walled.

Type species: Neochalara spiraeae Crous .

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