Pithomyces – Facesoffungi number: FoF 03611

Pithomyces Berk. & Broome, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 14: 100 (1873).

MycoBank number: MB 9412; Index Fungorum number: IF 9412; Facesoffungi number: FoF 03611; 43 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 6 species with molecular data.

Type species – Pithomyces flavus Berk. & Broome, J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 14: 100 (1873).

Notes – Pithomyces is similar to other astrosphaeriella-like genera in having dark, carbonaceous ascomata with a poorly developed peridium at the base, trabeculate pseudoparaphyses, cylindrical asci, and fusiform ascospores with acute ends (Wanasinghe et al. 2018a). However, it is distinct from other astrosphaeriella-like taxa in its hyphomycetous asexual morph while others are coelomycetous.

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