Hypocreopsis

Hypocreopsis is a genus of ascomycete fungi that form ascomata on the stems of trees and shrubs.

The ascomata are orange-brown and consist of radiating, perithecial lobes.

The genus includes three species:[1] The fruiting bodies of these species are macroscopically similar, other than the fact that H. lichenoides may develop brown mealy patches of conidia on the surface.

[1] Hypocreopsis amplectens and H. rhododendri are restricted to an oceanic climate.

Hypocreopsis rhododendri occurs on the western fringe of Europe, and has also been recorded historically from the Appalachian mountains in the eastern USA, and H. amplectens has been found at just four sites in Australia and New Zealand.