Pseudosplanchnonema Chethana & K.D. Hyde, in Chethana et al., Phytotaxa 231(2): 138 (2015).

MycoBank number: MB 551021; Index Fungorum number: IF 551021; Facesoffungi number: FoF 00568; 1 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 1 species with molecular data.

Type speciesPseudosplanchnonema phorcioides (I. Miyake) Chethana, Camporesi & K.D. Hyde, in Chethana et al., Phytotaxa 231(2): 139 (2015).

≡ Massaria phorcioides Miyake, Techn. Rep. Imper. Sericult. Exp. Stat. Tokyo 1:316 (1916)

Notes – Chethana et al. (2015) introduced Pseudosplanchnonema for a splanchnonema-like species that was phylogenetically placed in Massarinaceae. The genus was found associated with dead branches of Acer campestre and Morus spp. in Italy and Russia. Pseudosplanchnonema is characterized by its immersed, ostiolate ascomata, 8-spored, clavate, 2-seriate asci and fusiform, dark brown ascospores surrounded by a gelatinous sheath with subglobose to oblong, hyaline, aseptate conidial mass produced in culture (Tanaka et al. 2005b, Chethana et al. 2015).

Species

  • Pseudosplanchnonema phorcioides