Shimizuomyces Kobayasi, Bull. natn. Sci. Mus., Tokyo, B 7(1): 1 (1981)

MycoBank number: MB 5024; Index Fungorum number: IF 5024; Facesoffungi number: FoF 13110; 2 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 1 species with sequence data.

Type species – Shimizuomyces paradoxus Kobayasi

Notes – This is a plant pathogenic genus. Sung et al. (2007, 2010) provided molecular data and described the culture characteristics of Shimizuomyces paradoxus. The genus has no asexual morph. It is characterised by fleshy, stipitate stromata, clavate to cylindrical stroma, immersed perithecia and fusiform, septate ascospores (Kobayasi 1981).

Species

  • Shimizuomyces paradoxus