Thermoascus – Facesoffungi number: FoF

Thermoascus Miehe.

Index Fungorum number: IF 5446; Mycobank number: MB 5446

Notes – The genus Thermoascus has 12 records in Index Fungorum and MycoBank databases (3 July 2022), and about seven species are accepted in this genus (Houbraken et al. 2020; Wijayawardene et al. 2022). Species in this genus are thermophilic and morphologically characterised by the “production of orange-yellow, brown or red-brown, soft cleistothecia formed in a more or less continuous crust-like layer with a pseudoparenchymatous wall”, and the anamorph can be absent or differ significantly (Houbraken et al. 2020).

Species