Sporoschisma Berk. & Broome, Gard. Chron., London: 540 (1847)
Index Fungorum number: IF 10042; MycoBank number: MB 10042; Facesoffungi number: FoF 02372; 21 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 8 species with sequence data.
Type species – Sporoschisma mirabile Berk. & Broome
Notes– The hyphomycetous genus Sporoschisma has cosmopolitan distribution (Goh et al. 1997, Ho et al. 2001, 2002, Zelski et al. 2014, Luo et al. 2016, Yang et al. 2016a). Species of the genus mostly occur on submerged wood in freshwater habitats, while some species have been collected from rotting leaves (Hughes 1966, Goh et al. 1997, Ho et al. 2001, 2002, Zelski et al. 2014, Luo et al. 2016, Yang et al. 2016a). Sporoschisma species are characterized by cylindrical, stipitate conidiophores, with a swollen venter and a long, cylindrical neck, monophialidic conidiogenous cells and cylindrical conidia occurring in endogenously chains with basipetal succession (Zelski et al. 2014, Luo et al. 2016).