Fungalpedia – Note 3016, Phaeoscypha
Phaeoscypha. Spooner.
Citation when using this data: Wenping Wu & Yongzhao Diao. 2023– Fungalpedia.
Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank
Classification: Pezizellaceae, Helotiales, Leotiomycetidae, Leotiomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Ecology/substrate/host: Saprobe on dead plants.
Geographical distribution: South Africa and UK (Nag Raj and Kendrick 1975; Kirk and Spooner 1984).
Description and illustration: Ellis (1961, 1971); Sutton and Pirozynski (1965); Nag Raj and Kendrick (1975); Kirk and Spooner (1984).
Notes: The genus Phaeoscypha was established with P. cladii as the type species, a fungus with both discomycete teleomorph and Chaetochalara anamorph (Nag Raj and Kendrick 1975; Kirk and Spooner 1984). The second species P. pteridiicola was described on fern in South Africa, but without chalara-like anamorph (Raitviír and Schneller 2007). Its assignment into Pezizellaceae was not based on the type species P. cladii, but the recently describe species P. pteridiicola (Ekanayaka et al. 2019).
Type species: Phaeoscypha cladii (Nag Raj & W.B. Kendr.) Spooner, in Kirk & Spooner, Kew Bull. 38(4): 574 (1984)
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Phaeoscypha.
References
Ellis MB 1961 – Dematiaceous hyphomycetes. II. Mycol Pap 79:1–23.
Ellis MB (1971) Dematiaceous hyphomycetes. Commonwealth Mycological Institute, Kew.
Kirk PM, Spooner BM 1984 – An account of the fungi of Arran, Gigha and Kintyre. Kew Bull 38:503–597.
Raitviír A, Schneller J 2007 – Some new Helotiales on ferns from South Africa. Sydowia 59:255–265.
Sutton BC, Pirozynski KA 1965 – Notes on microfungi. II. Trans Br Mycol Soc 48:349–366.
Entry by
Wenping Wu, R&D Center, Novozymes China, No. 14 Xin Xi Lu, Shangdi Zone, Haidian District, Beijing 100085, People’s Republic of China
Published online 1 September 2026