Rhinocladium Sacc. & Marchal, Bull. Soc. R. Bot. Belg. 24(1): 65 (1885)

MycoBank number: MB 9722; Index Fungorum number: IF 9722; Facesoffungi number: FoF 06837; 11 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 1 species with sequence data.

Type species – Rhinocladium coprogenum Sacc. & Marchal

Notes – The genus is hyphomycetous with polyblastic conidiogenous cells integrated within the conidiophores. Rhinocladium species are saprobic and occur in terrestrial habitats and have a worldwide distribution. The genus was accepted in Microascaceae by Kirk et al. (2013), Sandoval- Denis et al. (2016a), Maharachchikumbura et al. (2015, 2016b) and Wijayawardene et al. (2017a, 2018a).

Species

  • Rhinocladium coprogenum