Plagiostoma Fuckel, Jb. nassau. Ver. Naturk. 23-24: 118 (1870)

MycoBank number: MB 4157; Index Fungorum number: IF 4157; Facesoffungi number: FoF 02128; 52 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 39 species with sequence data and molecular data available for 18 unnamed species.

Type species – Plagiostoma euphorbiae (Fuckel) Fuckel

Notes – Plagiostoma species occur as pathogens, endophytes or saprobes on stems, branches, twigs and leaves of woody and herbaceous plants (Mejía et al. 2011). The genus is mainly differentiated from other genera in the family by the neck characters of perithecia and ascospore morphology (Mejía et al. 2011).

Species

  • Plagiostoma euphorbiae