Pseudonitschkia Coppins & S.Y. Kondr., Edinb J Bot 52(2): 232 (1995).

MycoBank number: MB 6272; Index Fungorum number: IF 6272; Facesoffungi number: FoF 08200; 1 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), molecular data unavailable.

Type species – Pseudonitschkia parmotrematis Coppins & S.Y. Kondr., Edinb J Bot 52(2): 232 (1995).

Notes – The genus was accepted in the Dacampiaceae by Kirk et al. (2001) and Hyde et al. (2013) but placed as Dothideomycetes genera incertae sedis by Diederich et al. (2018). This monotypic genus is lichenicolous on Parmotrema and was described from Venezuela (holotype), Paraguay, Malawi, South Africa and Nepal. The holotype of the type species of Pseudonitschkia was re-described and illustrated by Doilom et al. (2018). No DNA sequence data are available.

Species

  • Pseudonitschkia parmotrematis