Genus Scotopezia Van Vooren, Sammut & P.Alvarado, gen. nov.

ETYMOLOGY. — From ancient Greek σκόΤΟς (skótos), meaning obscurity, darkness, and πέΖΙς (pezis) meaning “fungus without stipe”, referring to the dark colour of apothecia.

TYPE SPECIES. — Scotopezia pseudoanthracina (Donadini) Van Vooren, Sammut & P.Alvarado, comb. nov.

MYCOBANK NUMBER. — MB 849115.

DESCRIPTION

Ascomata gregarious, epigeous, discoid, sessile, brown to black coloured. Flesh without latex. Asci operculate, with croziers, having a diffusely but inconstantly amyloid wall in iodine solution. Ascospores globose, uniguttulate, warted. Paraphyses embedded at the top with a yellowish-brown exudate. Excipulum of textura globulosa / subglobulosa. Anamorph unknown. Trophic status unknown.