Cosmospora

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.

Species
Cosmospora Chaetopsina Cylindrocladiella Dialonectria Fusicolla Macroconia Mariannaea Microcera Pseudocosmospora Stylonectria Volutella Incertae sedis
 * 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