Schizothecium Corda, Icon. fung. (Prague) 2: 29 (1838)

MycoBank number: MB 4908; Index Fungorum number: IF 4908; Facesoffungi number: FoF 13309; 31 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 7 species with sequence data.

Type species – Schizothecium fimicola Corda

Notes – Schizothecium is characterized by pyriform ascomata, cylindrical asci and versicolor ascospores (Corda 1838). It is closely related to Jugulospora within Lasiosphaeriaceae based on multi-gene analysis (Stchigel et al. 2006, Kruys et al. 2015).

Species

  • Schizothecium fimicola