Phylacia Lév., Annls Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 3 3: 61 (1845)

Index Fungorum number: IF 4047; MycoBank number: MB 4047; Facesoffungi number: FoF 02996; 10 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 2 species with sequence data.

Type species – Phylacia globosa Lév.

Notes – Phylacia is characterized by cleistocarpous pyrenomycetes, lacking an ostiolar canal and opening by regular rupture of the ascomatal apex (Rodrigues & Samuels 1989, Medel et al. 2006). Earlier the genus was accepted in Phylaciaceae (Speer 1980b). Based on morphology (particularly the asexual morph), the strikingly similar metabolite profiles of the cultures to Daldinia (Bitzer et al. 2008) as well as inferred from molecular phylogenetic data, Phylacia was accommodated in Hypoxylaceae by Wendt et al. (2018). The asexual morph and stromatal pigments produced by Phylacia species also have close affinities to Thamnomyces and Rhopalostroma (Stadler et al. 2004, 2010).

Species

  • Phylacia globosa