Parepichloe J.F. White & P.V. Reddy, Mycologia 90(2): 231 (1998)

MycoBank number: MB 622359; Index Fungorum number: IF 622359; Facesoffungi number: FoF 13095; 4 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 2 species with sequence data.

Type species – Parepichloe cinerea (Berk. & Broome) J.F. White & P.V. Reddy

Notes – The genus was established to accommodate epibiotic species transferred from Epichloe. No asexual morph is known (White et al. 2003). The species infect grasses and produce cylindrical to fusiform, gray to black, sessile stromata, immersed, ovoid perithecia and filiform, multiseptate ascospores, not disarticulating into part-spores (White & Reddy 1998).

Species

  • Parepichloe cinerea