Zygospermella Cain, Mycologia 27(2): 227 (1935)

MycoBank number: MB 5894; Index Fungorum number: IF 5894; Facesoffungi number: FoF 13315; 2 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 1 species with sequence data.

Type species – Zygospermella setosa (Cain) Cain

Notes – Zygospermella is characterized by pyriform ascomata, clavate to cylindrical asci and ascospores with appendages at each end (Lundqvist 1969). It is closely related to Cercophora sordarioides based on tub2 and LSU sequence analysis (Kruys et al. 2015).

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