Sulcosporium Phookamsak & K.D. Hyde, in Ariyawansa et al., Fungal Divers. 75: 77 (2015).

MycoBank number: MB 551328; Index Fungorum number: IF 551328; Facesoffungi number: FoF 00894; 1 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 1 species with molecular data.

Type species – Sulcosporium thailandicum Phookamsak & K.D. Hyde [as ‘thailandica’], in Ariyawansa et al., Fungal Divers. 75: 77 (2015).

Notes – The striate, thick walled ascospores are a distinct characteristic of Sulcosporium. It is distinguished from other members of Halotthiaceae by the hamathecium embedded in mucilaginous matrix. The genus was reported as a pathogen on grasses, and causing necrotic leaf spots (see morphology Ariyawansa et al. 2015a).

Species

  • Sulcosporium thailandicum