NAME Sporotrichites
AGE    AGE span:  mya
K&J CLASSIFICATION (2000) Fungi Imperfecti, Amerosporae.
FIGURE(S)
FIGURE REFERENCE
SPECIES, AUTHORITY Sporotrichites Goeppert & Berendt, in Goeppert 1845, p. 116.
LOCATION
ORIG DESCRIPTION* ORIGINAL DIAGNOSIS: Tufts of uniform, convergent septate (?) branching [hyphae]. Simple round, free spores interwoven into the tufts, or sprinkled and interspersed within them. [Our translation of "Flocci caespitosi convergentes ramosi septati(?) uniformes. Sporae liberae rotundae simplices floccis intertextae aut obtectae deinde inspersae.]

Monotypic.
COMMENTS*
PUBLICATION REFERENCE Goeppert HR. 1845. Der Bernsteinbaum; in Berendt, G.C., Die im Bernstein befindlichen organischen Reste der Vorwelt; vol. 1; Der Bernstein und die in ihm befindlichen Pflanzenreste der Vorwelt; Berlin, in Commission der Nicolaischen Buchhandlung, p. 61-125.
K&J REMARKS
TYPE TYPE: Sporotrichites heterospermus Goeppert & Berendt, in Goeppert 1845, p. 116, pl. 6, fig. 42-46.
ALL NAMES (Including synonyms) Sporotrichites;
SERIAL NUMBER 1622
PUBLIC COMMENTS
 *For source, see Publication Reference.