Cosmospora
Cosmospora is a genus of ascomycete fungi in the family Nectriaceae. The genus, as circumscribed by Rossman et al., 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.
The name Cosmospora comes from Greek kosmos + spora'', meaning ornamented spores.
Species
Cosmospora- Cosmospora coccinea
- Cosmospora arxii
- Cosmospora butyri
- Cosmospora cymosa
- Cosmospora khandalensis
- Cosmospora lavitskiae
- Cosmospora scruposae
- Cosmospora viliuscula
- Cosmospora viridescens
- Chaetopsina fulva
- Chaetopsina penicillata
- Chaetopsina polyblastia
- Cylindrocladiella microcylindrica
- Dialonectria episphaeria
- Fusicolla matuoi
- Macroconia leptosphaeriae
- Macroconia cupularis
- Macroconia gigas
- Macroconia papilionacearum
- Mariannaea catenulatae
- Microcera coccophila
- Microcera diploa
- Microcera larvarum
- Pseudocosmospora joca
- Pseudocosmospora metepisphaeria
- Pseudocosmospora pseudepisphaeria
- Pseudocosmospora triqua
- Pseudocosmospora vilior
- Stylonectria purtonii
- Stylonectria wegeliniana
- Volutella consors
- Volutella citrinella
- 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''