Salsuginea – Facesoffungi number: FoF 08365

Salsuginea K.D. Hyde, Bot. Mar. 34(4): 315 (1991).

Index Fungorum number: IF 25680; MycoBank number: MB 25680; Facesoffungi number: FoF 08365; 2 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 2 species with molecular data.

Type species – Salsuginea ramicola K.D. Hyde.

Notes – Salsuginea typified by Salsuginea ramicola, was collected from submerged wood in mangroves. Salsuginea is similar to Helicascus but differs in having ascospores with apical germ pores/extensions and peridium of textura porrecta cells (Hyde 1991). Dayarathne et al. (2020) added another species, S. rhizophorae.

Species