Fuscosporella
Fuscosporella is a genus of terrestrial and freshwater fungi in the family Fuscosporellaceae and within the monotypic order of Fuscosporellales.
Etymology
The word Fuscosporella is derived from the Latin word -fusco, meaning dark and the Greek word spore meaning “seed, sowing”.History
Fuscosporella was originally established as a monotypic genus for Fuscosporella pyriformis, and it is the type genus of Fuscosporellaceae. Fuscosporella pyriformis is morphologically similar to Parafuscosprella moniliformis and Parafuscosprella mucosa, as they share characters such as uniseptate, dark brown, obvoid to obpyriform conidia of similar size, and hyaline, vesicular conidiogenous cells. Parafuscosporella garethii is significantly different from the species in its obpyramidal conidia, which are coronate at the apex with unusual conical projections. However, molecular evidence later gave a precise classification.Species
3 species are accepted by Species Fungorum;Fuscosporella xingyiensis was published in 2022, but not yet fully accepted.
Distribution
It has been only found in a few places worldwide, such as; off the coast of south America, in central Asia, in Thailand and China.Species in Fuscosporella and Mucispora are reported from freshwater habitats in Thailand and China,