Neophyllachora – Facesoffungi number: FoF 13499

Neophyllachora Dayar. & K.D. Hyde, Mycosphere 8(10): 1613 (2017)

Index Fungorum number: IF 553633; MycoBank number: MB 553633; Facesoffungi number: FoF 13499; 4 species with sequence data.

Type species – Neophyllachora myrciae (Lév.) Dayar. & K.D. Hyde

Notes – Members of Neophyllachora have subepidermal, intra-epidermal stromata without a deep invasion of the mesophyl, and clavate asci. Three species appear to infect Myrcia species specifically, one on Myrciaria species, and one on different Psidium species (Dayarathne et al. 2017). Neophyllachora myrciae has characteristically lunate ascospores and two types of conidia (ellipsoidal and falcate) formed in separate conidiomata, but both with phialidic conidiogenesis. Neophyllachora trucatisporum, on Myrciaria camapuanensis has sublunate ascospores with both ends showing characteristic wall thickenings; N. cerradensis on M. torta shows elliptical ascospores with predominantly longer dimensions when compared to N. subcircinans, which is found only on Psidium species; and P. myrciariae has ascospores similar in form to those of P. cerradensis, but also forms fusoid-clavate phialidic conidia (Santos et al. 2016, Dayarathne et al. 2017).

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