Sphaeropsis Sacc., Michelia 2(no. 6): 105 (1880) Index Fungorum number: IF 562041; Facesoffungi number: FoF 01704 Sphaeropsis was introduced by Saccardo (1880) with S. visci as the type species. More than 600 epithets are listed in Index Fungorum (2022). Sphaeropsis species are characterized by brown, aseptate ascospores with a small apiculus at either end. Conidia are oval, oblong or clavate, straight, pigmented and aseptate (Phillips et al. 2013).
Published as part of Rathnayaka, Achala R., Chethana, K. W. Thilini, Phillips, Alan J. L. & Jones, E. B. Gareth, 2022, Two new species of Botryosphaeriaceae (Botryosphaeriales) and new host / geographical records, pp. 8-38 in Phytotaxa 564 (1) on page 22, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.564.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/7077775
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