Papilionovela Aptroot, Mycol. Res. 101(3): 266 (1997)

MycoBank number: MB 27748; Index Fungorum number: IF 27748; Facesoffungi number: FoF 06450; 1 morphological species.

Type species – Papilionovela albothallina Aptroot

Notes – Papilionovela albothallina is a saprobe found on branches of an unidentified large tree in lowland rain forest in Papua New Guinea (Aptroot 1997). Papilionovela has solitary, dark brown discoid ascomata, cylindrical asci without apical rings, and hyaline, 1(–3)-septate, ellipsoid ascospores, ornamented with gelatinous wings (Aptroot 1997).

Species

  • Papilionovela albothallina