Tyrannosorus Unter. & Malloch, Mycol. Res. 99(8): 910 (1995).

MycoBank number: MB 11631; Index Fungorum number: IF 11631; Facesoffungi number: FoF 06365; – 1 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 1 species with molecular data.

Type species: Tyrannosorus pinicola (Petrini & P.J. Fisher) Unter. & Malloch, Mycol. Res. 99(8): 910 (1995).

≡ Capronia pinicola Petrini & P.J. Fisher, in Müller et al., Trans. Br. mycol. Soc. 88(1): 68 (1987).

Notes: Tyrannosorus was introduced as a monotypic genus. Helicodendron is considered as the asexual morph (Untereiner et al. 1995). This genus differs from other genera in having a helicosporous asexual morph and longitudinally ridged ascospores with multiple germ slits (Zhang et al. 2011).

Species

  • Tyrannosorus pinicola