Subbaromyces Hesselt., Bull. Torrey bot. Club 80: 511 (1953)

MycoBank number: MB 5303; Index Fungorum number: IF 5303; Facesoffungi number: FoF 10511; 2 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 1 species with sequence data.

Type species – Subbaromyces splendens Hesselt.

Notes – Subbaromyces splendens was repeatedly found growing on trickling filter beds in New York. Hesseltine (1953) reported both the sexual and asexual morphs. The genus is characterised by ascomata with ostiolar necks and 1-septate ascospores surrounded by a sheath. The asexual morph has micronematous conidiophores, with non-apically branching structures and solitary, holoblastic, oblong-elliptical to obovate conidia.

Species

  • Subbaromyces splendens