ABSTRACT
The genus Botryomyces (Botrys, Greek for bunch of grapes, + mykes, Greek for fungus) is a meristematic black fungus belonging to the mitosporic Dothideomycetes group, class Dothideomycetes, subphylum Pezizomycotina, phylum Ascomycota, and kingdom Fungi [1]. The mitosporic Dothideomycetes group is divided into nine genera: Asteromella, Botryomyces, Cenococcum, Cryomyces, Cyclothyrium, Cystocoleus, Racodium, Sclerostagonospora, and Seifertia. The genus Botryomyces contains a single species Botryomyces caespitosus, which was –rst described from human skin lesions [2]; Botryomyces angioformans is a doubtful species from an uncon–rmed disease of which no material has been preserved [3].
