Byssothecium
Genus of fungi
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Byssothecium is a genus of fungi in the family Massarinaceae.
| Byssothecium | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Dothideomycetes |
| Order: | Pleosporales |
| Family: | Massarinaceae |
| Genus: | Byssothecium Fuckel |
| Type species | |
| Byssothecium circinans Fuckel | |
This was a monotypic genus, containing the single species Byssothecium circinans and in the family Teichosporaceae.[1] But more species were added and it was later placed in the Massarinaceae family
Species
As accepted by Species Fungorum;[2]
- Byssothecium cholla M.E. Barr (2002)
- Byssothecium circinans Fuckel (1861)
- Byssothecium dichroum (Pass.) Kirschst. (1936)
- Byssothecium flumineum J.L. Crane, Shearer & Huhndorf (1992)
Former species;[2]
- B. alpestre (Tóth) Boise (1989) = Trematosphaeria alpestris, Trematosphaeriaceae
- B. heterosporum (De Not.) Niessl (1879) = Leptosphaeria heterospora, Leptosphaeriaceae
- B. incarceratum (Sacc.) Kirschst. (1936) = Passeriniella incarcerata, Massarinaceae
- B. obiones (P. Crouan & H. Crouan) M.E. Barr (2002) = Halobyssothecium obiones, Lentitheciaceae
