Phalangispora Nawawi & J. Webster, Trans. Br. mycol. Soc. 79(1): 65 (1982).

MycoBank number: MB 9328; Index Fungorum number: IF 9328; Facesoffungi number: FoF 07568; – 4 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 3 species with molecular data.

Type species: Phalangispora constricta Nawawi & J. Webster, Trans. Br. mycol. Soc. 79(1): 65 (1982).

Notes: Phalangispora is characterized by setose, sporodochial conidiomata and branched, tetraradiate conidia (Nawawi and Webster 1982). A combined dataset of ITS, LSU, tub1 and tub2 sequence data placeed Phalangispora within Wiesneriomyces (Santos 2015). Recent molecular phylogenetic data showed that Phalangispora is a distinct group within Wiesneriomycetaceae (Guo et al. 2019).

Species

  • Phalangispora constricta