Nigrocornus Ryley & Langdon, Mycology Series (New York) 19: 266 (2003)

MycoBank number: MB 28732; Index Fungorum number: IF 28732; Facesoffungi number: FoF 13093; 1 morphological species.

Type species – Nigrocornus scleroticus (Pat.) Ryley

Notes – The genus was established to accommodate a single plant pathogenic species transferred from Balansia. The genus is characterised by black, corniform, sessile stromata, lageniform to obpyriform, immersed perithecia and filiform, 7-septate ascospores, ultimately becoming 3-septate (White et al. 2003). The asexual morph bears simple, indeterminate conidiophores and holoblastic, obclavate, multiguttulate, aseptate conidia (White et al. 2003).

Species

  • Nigrocornus scleroticus