Neophaeococcomyces – Facesoffungi number: FoF 10393

Neophaeococcomyces Crous & M.J. Wingf., in Crous et al. Persoonia 35: 287 (2015)

MycoBank number: MB 814935;Index Fungorum number: IF 814935; Facesoffungi number: FoF 10393, 4 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2021), with molecular data.

Saprobic on dead bark of plants in terrestrial habitats. Sexual morph: Undetermined. Asexual morph: hyphomycetous. Colonies lacking mycelium but consisting of a globular mass of chlamydospore-like cells. Chlamydospore-like cells globose, hyaline to brown, covered in mucus, aseptate, thin-walled, remaining attached to one another, through younger end cells at the colony margin. Conidia ellipsoid to globose, hyaline, thin-walled, covered in mucus, smooth-walled.

Type species: Neophaeococcomyces aloes (Crous & M.J. Wingf.) Crous & M.J. Wingf., in Crous et al. Persoonia 35: 287 (2015)

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