Byssothecium

Byssothecium
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Dothideomycetes
Subclass:	Pleosporomycetidae
Order:	Pleosporales
Family:	Massarinaceae
Genus:	Byssothecium Fuckel
Type species
Byssothecium circinans Fuckel

Byssothecium is a genus of fungi in the family Massarinaceae.

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

References

1. Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet. 13. Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany: 1–58. Archived from the original on 2009-03-18.
2. "Species Fungorum - Search Page - Byssothecium". www.speciesfungorum.org. Retrieved 31 July 2023.