Cryptovalsa Ces. & De Not. ex Fuckel, 1870

Dayarathne, Monika C., Wanasinghe, Dhanushka N., Devadatha, B., Abeywickrama, Pranami, G, E. B., Jones, areth, Chomnunti, Putarak, Sarma, V. V., Hyde, Kevin D., Lumyong, Saisamorn, C., Eric H. & Mckenzie, 2020, Modern taxonomic approaches to identifying diatrypaceous fungi from marine habitats, with a novel genus Halocryptovalsa Dayarathne & K. D. Hyde, gen. nov., Cryptogamie, Mycologie 20 (3), pp. 21-67 : 41

Cryptovalsa Ces. & De Not. ex Fuckel

Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde 23-24: 212 (1870) [1869-70].

NOTES

Cryptovalsa contains 24 species, which are reported on woody substrates in a wide range of terrestrial habitats ( Wijayawardene et al. 2017). The generic type, Cryptovalsa protracta lacks sequence data in GenBank (Abdel-Wahab et al. 2017). Four Cryptovalsa species have been described from marine habitats namely, C. avicenniae , C. halosarceiicola , C. mangrovei , C. suaedicola ( Spooner 1981, Inderbitzin et al. 1999, Abdel-Wahab et al. 2017). However, based on morphological and phylogenetic data C. avicenniae is transferred to the new genus, Halocryptovalsa Dayarathne & K.D.Hyde , gen. nov. Cryptovalsa is in need of further revision, with detailed modern descriptions, and better illustrations of species, their epitypification, isolation and sequencing to establish phylogenetic relationships to other genera in the family (Abdel-Wahab et al. 2017).