ETYMOLOGY: Refers to the genus of the host fungus.

NOTES: Annellospermosporella meliolinae, associated with sparse, partly eroded Meliolina leptospermi colonies, is often difficult to recognise macroscopically.
In two of the collections (PDD 63407, 69824), this species was often associated with perithecia of Malacaria meliolinae. In these collections, the mycelium from both species appears to exude a wine red pigment in KOH. In the third collection of A. meliolinae (PDD 68411), where Malacaria was not observed, the same KOH reaction occurs. Healthy Meliolina mycelium gives no reaction in KOH. Although the evidence is not strong, there is a possibility that these two species represent the anamorph and teleomorph of the same fungus. Hansford (1946) speculated that the anamorph ofMalacaria flagellata (Hansf.) Hansf. (M. meholicola Syd., see Rossman 1987) may be Atractalina parasitica (G.Winter) Deighton & Piroz. (as Arthrobotryum parasiticum (G.Winter) Hansf), primarily on the basis of the fungi being found in close proximity on the same host fungus colonies.