Pseudobyssosphaeria H.B. Jiang & K.D. Hyde, Mycosphere 9(2): 303 (2018).

MycoBank number: MB 554471; Index Fungorum number: IF 554471; Facesoffungi number: FoF 08300; 1 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 1 species with molecular data.

Type species – Pseudobyssosphaeria bambusae H.B. Jiang & K.D. Hyde, in Hyde et al., Mycosphere 9(2): 306 (2018).

Notes – Pseudobyssosphaeria was introduced based on DNA sequence analysis (Hyde et al. 2018). It is characterized by superficial, subglobose, blackened, ostiolate ascomata with outwardly brown, septate, branched hyphae, dark brown, unbranched, septate setae, septate, branched pseudoparaphyses, bitunicate, cylindrical to clavate asci and fusiform, hyaline, 1-septate ascospores. Pseudobyssosphaeria bambusae is similar to Bertiella (Hyde et al. 2018) as they are similar. Hyde et al. (2018) realized problems with DNA sequence analysis and thus introduced Pseudobyssosphaeria temporarily. This was ignored by Pem et al. (2019c) who did not include this genus in their multi-gene phylogenetic analysis.

Species

  • Pseudobyssosphaeria bambusae