Pseudosporidesmiaceae Crous, Persoonia 39: 365 (2017)
Index Fungorum number: IF 823464; MycoBank number: MB 823464; Facesoffungi number: FoF 05493; 2 species.
On leaves of living plants. Sexual morph: Undetermined. Asexual morph: Hyphomycetous. Mycelium consists of branched, septate, pale brown hyphae. Conidiophores solitary or in clusters, flexuous or erect, arising from superficial hyphae, rejuvenating percurrently, with cylindrical stipe, brown, smooth, thick-walled, mostly unbranched. Conidiogenous cells terminal, cylindrical, brown, scars truncate, not thickened. Conidia solitary, obclavate, brown, subobtuse at apex, truncate at base, euseptate, smooth-walled (adapted from Crous et al. 2017a).
Type genus – Pseudosporidesmium K.D. Hyde & McKenzie
Notes – Pseudosporidesmiaceae, introduced by Crous et al. (2017a), included two species of Pseudosporidesmium and a taxon tentatively identified as Repetophragma inflatum (GenBank number DQ408576), of which the characters could not be confirmed. Pseudosporidesmiaceae is assigned to Xylariales (Xylariomycetidae, Sordariomycetes) based on phylogenetic analysis (Su et al. 2016b, Crous et al. 2017a).
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