Piricauda Bubák, Annls mycol. 12(2): 218 (1914).
MycoBank number: MB 9404; Index Fungorum number: IF 9404; Facesoffungi number: FoF 08544; 30 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 2 species with molecular data.
Type species – Piricauda uleana (Sacc. & P. Syd.) Bubák, Annls mycol. 12(2): 218 (1914).
≡ Stigmella uleana Sacc. & P. Syd., Atti del Congr. bot. di Palermo: 57 (1902).
Notes – Wijayawardene et al. (2020) tentatively placed this genus in Mycosphaerellaceae based on phylogenetic placement of Piricauda paraguayensis in Da Silva et al. (2016).
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