Cosmospora is a genus of ascomycete fungi in the family Nectriaceae. The genus, as circumscribed by Rossman et al. (1998), included all the nectrioid species with small, reddish, non-ornamented sexual fruiting bodies that collapse laterally when dry. However, the genus was shown to be polyphyletic, and the majority of species were re-classified into revived or recently established genera that are monophyletic. Cosmospora sensu Rossman housed members of the following genera: Chaetopsina, Cylindrocladiella, Fusicolla, Macroconia, Mariannaea, Microcera, Pseudocosmospora, Stylonectria, and Volutella. Cosmospora was restricted to species having acremonium-like asexual morphs that grow on polypores and xylariaceous fungi by Gräfenhan in 2011. About 20 species are accepted in the genus (Gräfenhan et al. 2011; Herrera et al. 2015; Zeng and Zhuang et al. 2016; Luo et al. 2019; Lechat et al. 2021).

The name Cosmospora comes from Greek kosmos + spora, meaning ornamented spores.

Cosmospora

Species

Cosmospora

Cosmospora coccinea

Cosmospora arxii

Cosmospora butyri

Cosmospora cymosa

Cosmospora khandalensis

Cosmospora lavitskiae

Cosmospora scruposae

Cosmospora viliuscula

Cosmospora viridescens

Chaetopsina

Chaetopsina fulva

Chaetopsina penicillata

Chaetopsina polyblastia

Cylindrocladiella

Cylindrocladiella microcylindrica

Dialonectria

Dialonectria episphaeria

Fusicolla

Fusicolla matuoi

Macroconia

Macroconia leptosphaeriae

Macroconia cupularis

Macroconia gigas

Macroconia papilionacearum

Mariannaea

Mariannaea catenulatae

Microcera

Microcera coccophila

Microcera diploa

Microcera larvarum

Pseudocosmospora

Pseudocosmospora joca

Pseudocosmospora metepisphaeria

Pseudocosmospora pseudepisphaeria

Pseudocosmospora triqua

Pseudocosmospora vilior

Stylonectria

Stylonectria purtonii

Stylonectria wegeliniana

Volutella

Volutella consors

Volutella citrinella

Incertae sedis

Cosmospora biasolettiana

Cosmospora chlorina

Cosmospora damingshanica

Cosmospora digitalicola

Cosmospora diminuta

Cosmospora dingleyae

Cosmospora effusa

Cosmospora geastroides

Cosmospora glabra

Cosmospora henanensis

Cosmospora hispanica

Cosmospora japonica

Cosmospora jucundula

Cosmospora kurdica

Cosmospora lasiodiplodiae

Cosmospora macrochaetopsinae

Cosmospora marelliana

Cosmospora meliopsicola

Cosmospora nothepisphaeria

Cosmospora nummulariae

Cosmospora obscura

Cosmospora peponum

Cosmospora pseudoflavoviridis

Cosmospora purpureocolla

Cosmospora rickii

Cosmospora rubrisetosa

Cosmospora sansevieriae

Cosmospora stegonsporii

Cosmospora stilbosporae

Cosmospora thujana

Cosmospora tungurahuana

References

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Nectriaceae genera

Cosmospora