Fungalpedia – Note 1705, Banhegyia

 

Banhegyia. L. Zeller & Tóth.

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank.

Classification: Patellariaceae, Patellariales, incertae sedis, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

 

Note: Banhegyia is characterized by apothecia-like ascomata, bitunicate asci and epithecium formed from pseudoparaphyses, and 8-spored, bitunicate, subglobose to obovoid asci (Yacharoen et al. 2015).

 

Type species: Banhegyia setispora L. Zeller & Tóth, Sydowia 14: 327 (1960)