Physalospora Niessl, Verh. nat. Ver. Brünn 14: 170 (1876)

MycoBank number: MB 4079; Index Fungorum number: IF 4079; Facesoffungi number: FoF 06453; 132 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 3 species and 5 unnamed species with sequence data.

Type species – Physalospora alpestris Niessl

Notes – Physalospora species have solitary, immersed, clypeate, black ascomata, cylindrical asci, and hyaline, fusiform ascospores, sometimes becoming pale brown at maturity and with or without a mucilaginous sheath (Wang & Hyde 1999, Sivanesan & Shivas 2002).

Species

  • Physalospora alpestris