Byssosphaeria Cooke

Tennakoon, Danushka S., Thambugala, Kasun M., de Silva, Nimali I., Song, Hai-Yan, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Chen, Fu-Sheng & Hu, Dian-Ming, 2024, An overview of Melanommataceae (Pleosporales, Dothideomycetes): Current insight into the host associations and geographical distribution with some interesting novel additions from plant litter, MycoKeys 106, pp. 43-96 : 43-96

Byssosphaeria Cooke

Notes.

Cooke and Plowright (1879) established Byssosphaeria to accommodate B. keithii as the type species. Byssosphaeria species have superficial ascomata with bright yellow, orange or red flat apices around the ostiole, with dependent hyphal appendages that merge with the subiculum below and hyaline ascospores ( Tian et al. 2015; Tennakoon et al. 2018). Species have cosmopolitan distribution as saprobes in various plant substrates (e. g. dead leaves, wood). As well, Byssosphaeria species have been reported from 15 plant families (Fig. 10 ). Currently, there are 18 accepted species in Species Fungorum (2024).

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Figure 10. The melanommataceous species distribution through plant host families.