Genus Zodiomyces Thaxt.

MB#5872

Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 25: 263 (Thaxter 1891). –

Type species: Z. vorticellarius Thaxt.

Brief description

Monoecious. The large to very large pseudoparenchymatous receptacle unmistakably defines this genus, along with other features related to perithecial morphology (Santamaria 2004).

Remarks

The genus consists of five species, of which two in Europe, one in Denmark. The most recently described species is Z. vermiformis (Das et al. 2018) . Zodiomyces was an isolated genus in the Zodiomycetoideae (Tavares 1985) until Santamaria (2004) redefined its status when two new related genera were described.