Uleothyrium – Facesoffungi number: FoF 06762

Uleothyrium Petr., Annls mycol. 27(5/6): 388 (1929).

MycoBank number: MB 5661; Index Fungorum number: IF 5661; Facesoffungi number: FoF 06762; 2 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), molecular data unavailable.

Type species: Uleothyrium amazonicum Petr., Annls mycol. 27(5/6): 388 (1929).

Notes: Uleothyrium is similar to Platypeltella in having rounded ostioles, which are distinct from any other genera in Asterinaceae. However, Uleothyrium lacks appressoria, while Platypeltella has intercalary appressoria.

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