Ovatospora X. Wei Wang, Samson & Crous, Stud. Mycol. 84: 185 (2016)

Index Fungorum number: IF 818850; MycoBank number: MB 818850; Facesoffungi number: FoF 13043; 6 species with sequence data.

Type species – Ovatospora brasiliensis X. Wei Wang & Samson

Notes – Ovatospora was introduced by Wang et al. (2016a) to accommodate O. brasiliensis, O. medusarum, O. mollicella, O. pseudomollicella, O. senegalensis, and O. unipora. The genus is characterised by superficial, subglobose or ovate ascomata, ostiolate, with brown walls of cells of textura angularis. Terminal hairs are usually coiled and often branched, and lateral hairs are Asci are fasciculate, cylindrical or clavate and evanescent, and ascospores are brown at maturity, broadly ovate, bilaterally flattened, rounded at one end, attenuate or apiculate at other end and have an apical germ pore. No asexual morphs are known (Wang et al. 2016a).

Species

  • Ovatospora brasiliensis