Paradinemasporium – Facesoffungi number: FoF

Paradinemasporium Crous & Osieck, gen. nov.

MycoBank number: MB 841834; Index Fungorum number: IF 841834; Facesoffungi number: FoF;

Etymology:  Name refers to its similarity to Dinemasporium.

Classification: — Chaetosphaeriaceae, Chaetosphaeriales, Sordariomycetes.

Conidiomata stromatic, acervuloid, mostly solitary on host, pale brown with luteous mucoid conidial mass, setose; basal stroma of subglobose cells, excipulum absent. Setae interspersed, arising from basal stroma, straight, multi-septate, brown, unbranched, thick-walled, fertile at apex, with flared collarette. Conidiophores lining cavity, subcylindrical, hyaline, smooth-walled, branched, septate. Conidiogenous cells phialidic, subcylindrical, hyaline to subhyaline, smooth-walled; apex with flared collarette. Conidia fusoid to subcylindrical, hyaline, smooth-walled, guttulate, 1-septate, apex with 2 – 3 excentric appendages; base with a single central appendage.

Type species: Paradinemasporium junci Crous & Osieck .

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