Pestalosphaeria is a genus of fungi in the family Amphisphaeriaceae.
The morphological characters of Pestalosphaeria comprise cylindrical asci with a J+ apical apparatus, ascospores uniseriate in the ascus, three cells, ellipsoid, and a pale dull brown color.Shunsuke Nozawa, Kaoru Yamaguchi, Le Thi Hoang Yen, Duong Van Hop, Nyunt Phay, Katsuhiko Ando, Kyoko Watanabe, Identification of two new species and a sexual morph from the genus Pseudopestalotiopsis, Mycoscience, 2017, ISSN 1340-3540
The genus name of Pestalosphaeria is in honour of Fortunato Pestalozza (died 1878), who was an Italian botanist and doctor who worked in Constantinople and Antalya.
The genus was circumscribed by Margaret Elizabeth Barr-Bigelow in Mycologia vol.67 on page 188 in 1975.
Species As accepted by Species Fungorum; Pestalosphaeria accidenta Pestalosphaeria alpiniae Pestalosphaeria austroamericana Pestalosphaeria hansenii Pestalosphaeria leucospermi
Former species Pestalosphaeria concentrica = Pestalotiopsis guepinii); Pestalotiopsidaceae Pestalosphaeria elaeidis = Pseudopestalotiopsis elaeidis); Pestalotiopsidaceae Pestalosphaeria eugeniae = Pestalotiopsis eugeniae); Pestalotiopsidaceae Pestalosphaeria gubae = Pestalotiopsis neglecta); Pestalotiopsidaceae Pestalosphaeria jinggangensis = Pestalotiopsis podocarpi); Pestalotiopsidaceae Pestalosphaeria maculiformans = Pestalotiopsis maculiformans); Pestalotiopsidaceae Pestalosphaeria varia = Pestalotiopsis besseyi); Pestalotiopsidaceae
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External links Index Fungorum