Selecta Fungorum Carpologia 2: 246, 264
Typus: C. innumera (Berk. & Br.) Tul.
Location of type: PC, holotype; IMI, isotype
Type studies: Gams & Holubova-Jechova (Studies in Mycology 13:1-99. 1976, culture)
Anamorphs: Catenularia, Chaetopsis, Chalara, Chloridium, Codinaea, Gonytrichum, Kylindria, Menispora, Phialophora, Zanclospora
Status: widely circumscribed, currently under revision (Fernandez & Huhndorf, in prep; Reblova, in prep)
Number of epithets: 98 (plus 187 epithets in synonym Zignoella) (20 accepted in Dictionary of the Fungi, 1995)
Monograph:
Additional literature: Booth (Mycological Papers 68:1-26. 1957); Booth (The Naturalist 1958:83-90.)
ascomata superficial, gregarious often in large groups, small, globose
to ovoid, with short apex, with sparse, blunt, flexuous setae or not
ascospores fusiform, hyaline, 1 to multi septate, various sizes
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