Phaeosaccardinula Henn., Hedwigia 44: 67 (1905)

MycoBank number: MB 3943; Index Fungorum number: IF 3943; Facesoffungi number: FoF 04392; 27 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2021), 4 species with molecular data.

Epiphytic on the surface of leaves forming a sooty-like coating. Mycelium superficial, black, composed of dark brown to black, reticulate to branched, septate hyphae. Sexual morph: Ascomata superficial, scattered, globose to subglobose, cupulate when dry, dark brown to black, with or without setae, thick-walled cells at the outside, ostiolate or ostiole inconspicuous. Wall of ascoma multi-layered, composed of brown, thick-walled cells outside, becoming light brown and flattened in the inner region. Hamathecium lacking pseudoparaphyses, or pseudoparaphyses hyaline, aseptate. Asci 4–8-spored, bitunicate, oblong-ellipsoid, clavate, subglobose to oval, sessile or shortly pedicellate, early evanescent, lacking an ocular chamber when mature. Ascospores overlapping 2–4-seriate, hyaline, olivaceous-green at the septa of mature ascospores, oblong-ellipsoid, muriform, constricted at the septa, with a mucilaginous sheath. Asexual morph: Undetermined.

Type: Phaeosaccardinula diospyricola Henn.