Melanospora

{{Short description|Genus of fungi}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Melanospora (10.3897-mycokeys.44.29742) Figure 4.jpg

| image_caption = Morphological features of the genus Melanospora. Melanospora damnosa (CBS 113681). A Ascoma B Ascomatal neck D Detail of hyphal neck F Ascospores H Ascospore germinating. Melanospora zamiae (NBRC 7902) C Ascomatal neck E Detail of ascomatal wall. Melanospora verrucispora (NBRC 31375T) G Ascospores I Phialidic asexual morph. Scale bars: 50 μm (A); 10 μm (B–E, I); 5 μm (F–H).

| taxon = Melanospora

| authority = Corda

| type_species = Melanospora zamiae

| type_species_authority = Corda

| subdivision_ranks = Species

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Melanospora is a genus of fungi within the Ceratostomataceae family.{{cite journal|last=Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. |date=December 2007 |title=Outline of Ascomycota – 2007 |journal=Myconet |volume=13 |pages=1–58 |url=http://archive.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp |publisher=The Field Museum, Department of Botany |location=Chicago, USA |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090318003134/http://www.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp |archivedate=2009-03-18 }}

Sakayaroj et al. (2005) recognised a distinct lineage of marine Ascomycota within the class Sordariomycetes,{{cite journal |last1=Sakayaroj |first1=J. |last2=Pang |first2=KL |last3=Jones |first3=EBG |last4=Phongpaichit |first4=S. |last5=Vrijmoed |first5=L.L.P. |last6=Abdel-Wahab |first6=M.A. |title=A systematic reassessment of the marine ascomycetes Torpedospora and Swampomyces. |journal=Botanica Marina |date=2005 |volume=48 |pages=395–406. |doi=10.1515/bot.2005.053}} that was then named TBM (Torpedospora/Bertia/Melanospora) clade.{{cite journal |last1=Schoch |first1=C.L. |last2=Sung |first2=G.H. |last3=Volkmann-Kohlmeyer |first3=B. |last4=Kohlmeyer |first4=J. |last5=Spatafora |first5=J.W. |title=Marine fungal lineages in the Hypocreomycetidae. |journal=Mycological Research |date=2007 |volume=111 |pages=154–162. |doi=10.1016/j.mycres.2006.10.005}} Bertia was later placed in order Coronophorales and Torpedospora in order Torpedosporales.