Xylomyces Goos et al., Mycologia 69(2): 282 (1977).

MycoBank number: MB 10460; Index Fungorum number: IF 10460; Facesoffungi number: FoF 07690; 8 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 2 species with molecular data.

Type species: Xylomyces chlamydosporus Goos et al. [as‘chlamydosporis’], Mycologia 69(2): 282 (1977).

Notes: Xylomyces is characterised by large, dematiaceous, thick-walled, multi-septate, more or less fusiform chlamydospores that superficially resemble phragmoconidia, however, it has been shown to be polyphyletic and not all species belong in the Jahnulales.

Species

  • Xylomyces chlamydosporus