Pestalosphaeria

 ( Xylariales ) 

Pestalosphaeria is a genus of fungi in the family Pestalotiopsidaceae.

The morphological characters of Pestalosphaeria comprise cylindrical Ascus with a J+ apical apparatus, uniseriate in the ascus, three cells, ellipsoid, and a pale dull brown color.Shunsuke Nozawa, Kaoru Yamaguchi, Le Thi Hoang Yen, Duong Van Hop, Nyunt Phay, Katsuhiko Ando, Kyoko Watanabe, Identification of two new species and a sexual morph from the genus Pseudopestalotiopsis, Mycoscience, 2017, ISSN 1340-3540

The genus name of Pestalosphaeria is in honour of Fortunato Pestalozza (died 1878), who was an Italian botanist and doctor who worked in Constantinople and Antalya.

The genus was circumscribed by Margaret Elizabeth Barr-Bigelow in Mycologia vol.67 on page 188 in 1975.

• Pestalosphaeria accidenta
• Pestalosphaeria alpiniae
• Pestalosphaeria austroamericana
• Pestalosphaeria hansenii
• Pestalosphaeria leucospermi

Former species

• Pestalosphaeria concentrica = Pestalotiopsis guepinii); Pestalotiopsidaceae
• Pestalosphaeria elaeidis = Pseudopestalotiopsis elaeidis); Pestalotiopsidaceae
• Pestalosphaeria eugeniae = Pestalotiopsis eugeniae); Pestalotiopsidaceae
• Pestalosphaeria gubae = Pestalotiopsis neglecta); Pestalotiopsidaceae
• Pestalosphaeria jinggangensis = Pestalotiopsis podocarpi); Pestalotiopsidaceae
• Pestalosphaeria maculiformans = Pestalotiopsis maculiformans); Pestalotiopsidaceae
• Pestalosphaeria varia = Pestalotiopsis besseyi); Pestalotiopsidaceae

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