Zygopleurage – Facesoffungi number: FoF 13314

Zygopleurage Boedijn, Persoonia 2(3): 316 (1962)

MycoBank number: MB 5889; Index Fungorum number: IF 5889; Facesoffungi number: FoF 13314; 3 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 1 species with sequence data.

Type species – Zygopleurage zygospora (Speg.) Boedijn

Notes – Zygopleurage has pyriform ascomata, cylindrical asci and ascospores consisting of 2 ellipsoid cells connected by a long cylindrical cell (Boedijn 1962, Lundqvist 1969). Sequence data of Z. zygospora (Huhndorf et al. 2004b) revealed that Zygopleurage was closely related to Arnium cirriferum based on phylogenetic analysis (Kruys et al. 2015).

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