Brunneosporella

Brunneosporella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Subdivision: Pezizomycotina
Class: Sordariomycetes
Order: incertae sedis
Family: Annulatascaceae
Genus: Brunneosporella
V.M. Ranghoo & K.D. Hyde
Type species
Brunneosporella aquatica
Ranghoo & K.D. Hyde

Brunneosporella is a genus of fungi in the Cephalothecaceae family of the Ascomycota. The relationship of this taxon to other taxa within the Sordariomycetes class is unknown (incertae sedis), and it has not yet been placed with certainty into any order.[1] This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species Brunneosporella aquatica. The type specimen was found in rotting wood, found submerged in fresh water in Hong Kong.[2]

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References

  1. Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet (Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany) 13: 1–58.
  2. Brunneosporella aquatica gen. et sp. nov., Aqualignicola hyalina gen. et sp. nov., Jobellisia viridifusca sp. nov. and Porosphaerellopsis bipolaris sp. nov. (ascomycetes) from submerged wood in freshwater habitats V. Mala RANGHOO, Clement K. M. TSUI and Kevin D. HYDE Mycological Research (2001), 105:5:625-633 doi:10.1017/S0953756201003793