Melanconis Tul. & C. Tul., Select. Fung. Carpol. (Paris) 2: 115 (1863)

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Melanconis Tul. & C. Tul., Select. Fung. Carpol. (Paris) 2: 115 (1863)

Type species.

Melanconis stilbostoma (Fr.) Tul. & C. Tul., Select. Fung. Carpol. (Paris) 2: 115 (1863).

Notes.

Melanconis was established by Tulasne & Tulasne (1863) based on Sphaeria stilbostoma . Melanconis has approximately 105 species epithets recorded in Index Fungorum (August 2019), but for most species no living cultures or DNA sequence data are available. Rossman et al. (2007) suggested that many of the species previously residing in Melanconis may belong elsewhere. Melanconis includes five species ( Melanconis alni , Ms. betulae , Ms. marginalis , Ms. itoana and the type species Ms. stilbostoma ), which were all restricted to the hosts in Betulaceae ( Fan et al. 2016, 2018b).