Orbiocrella D. Johnson, G.H. Sung, Hywel-Jones & Spatafora, Mycol. Res. 113(3): 286 (2009)

MycoBank number: MB 512031; Index Fungorum number: IF 512031; Facesoffungi number: FoF 13094; 1 species with sequence data

Type species – Orbiocrella petchii (Hywel-Jones) D. Johnson, G.H. Sung, Hywel-Jones & Spatafora

Notes – This entomophagous genus contains a single species transferred from Torrubiella (Johnson et al. 2009). The asexual morph is simplicillium-like (Johnson et al. 2009). The genus is characterised by ring-like, sessile stroma, superficial, flask-shaped perithecia and filiform, multiseptate ascospores, not disarticulating into part-spores (Johnson et al. 2009).

Species

  • Orbiocrella petchii