Querciphoma Crous, IMA Fungus, 2017

Gao, Hanxing, Yin, Jingyan, Li, Yu, Liu, Shuyan & Zhu, Zhaoxiang, 2022, Introducing Querciphoma styphnolobii sp. nov., the first sexual morph of Querciphoma (Leptosphaeriaceae, Pleosporales), Phytotaxa 555 (4), pp. 279-290 : 282

Querciphoma Crous, IMA Fungus 8(1): 147 (2017)

Saprobic on bark, leaves, and twigs of herbaceous or woody plants in terrestrial habitats. Sexual morph: Ascomata black, superficial to semi-immersed, solitary, globose, rough or hairy, central ostiolate, filled with hyaline cells, with brown and septate setae, outer layer heavily pigmented, thick-walled, comprising blackish to dark brown cells of textura angularis, cells towards the inside lighter, with inner layer composed 3–4 layers, hyaline, flattened, thin-walled cells of textura angularis. Asci 8-spored, bitunicate, fissitunicate, fusiform, cylindric-clavate, apically rounded, with a short, furcate pedicel, with ocular chamber. Ascospores biseriate, muriform, mostly ellipsoidal, 3−6 transversely septate with one vertical septum, constricted at the middle septum, initially hyaline, becoming light grey or light brown at maturity, conical and narrow at the ends, surrounded by a mucilaginous sheath.

Asexual morph: see Crous & Groenewald (2017).

Type species— Querciphoma minuta, Index Fungorum 336: 1 (2017)