Abstract:
The genus Mycosisymbrium was described in 1994 from dead leaves of Vaccinium macrocarpon and is monotypified by M. cirrhosum. There have been no further records of this species. During the study of litter degrading asexual fungi from the Western Ghats of Goa we collected M. cirrhosum from leaf litter of Gnetum ula and successfully obtained a culture of this fungus through single spore isolation. The multi-gene phylogenetic analysis shows that Mycosisymbrium is a well-supported sister genus to Ochroconis and Verruconis in the family Sympoventuriaceae of the order Venturiales.
