Genus Iodomarcelleina gen. nov.

ETYMOLOGY. — Referring to the amyloid reaction of asci in iodine solution, and Marcelleina, the phylogenetically closest genus.

TYPE SPECIES. — Iodomarcelleina obscura sp. nov.

MYCOBANK NUMBER. — MB 849113.

DESCRIPTION

Ascomata epigeous, discoid, sessile, dark coloured. Flesh without latex. Asci operculate, with croziers, having a diffusely amyloid wall in iodine solution. Ascospores globose, multiguttulate, smooth. Paraphyses with an external pigment at the top. Ectal excipulum of textura globulosa / angularis. Anamorph unknown. Trophic status unknown.