Fungalpedia – Note 890, Acrodictyaceae

 

Acrodictyaceae. J.W. Xia & X.G. Zhang.

Citation when using this data: Dong W et al. 2021 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank

Classification: Diaporthales, Diaporthomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

Acrodictyaceae was introduced to accommodate a single genus Acrodictys characterized by acrogenous, obovoid to pyriform, muriform conidia (Xia et al. 2017). The phylogenetic position of Acrodictyaceae is unstable, as it clusters with Junewangiaceae, Papulosaceae or Sporidesmiaceae in different studies (Xia et al. 2017, Luo et al. 2019, Hyde et al. 2020). All these three families have annulatascaceae-like sexual morphs, e.g. Dictyosporella thailandensis in Junewangiaceae, Fluminicola aquatica in Papulosaceae, and Sporidesmium thailandense in Sporidesmiaceae (Zhang et al. 2017). However, no sexual morph is linked to Acrodictyaceae. Although the placement of Acrodictyaceae is unstable, it clusters with Diaporthomycetidae families in all studies (Luo et al. 2019, Hyde et al. 2020, this study). We therefore refer Acrodictyaceae to Diaporthomycetidae families incertae sedis.

Type genus: Acrodictys  M.B. Ellis, Mycol. Pap. 79: 5 (1961).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Acrodictys.

 

References

Hyde KD, Norphanphoun C, Maharachchikumbura SSN, Bhat DJ et al. 2020 – Refined families of Sordariomycetes. Mycosphere 11, 305–1059.

Luo ZL, Hyde KD, Liu JK, Maharachchikumbura SSN et al. 2019 – Freshwater Sordariomycetes. Fungal Diversity 99, 451–660.

Xia JW, Ma YR, Li Z, Zhang XG. 2017 – Acrodictys-like wood decay fungi from southern China, with two new families Acrodictyaceae and Junewangiaceae. Scientific Reports 7, 7888.

Zhang H, Dong W, Hyde KD, Maharachchikumbura SSN et al. 2017 – Towards a natural classification of Annulatascaceae-like taxa: introducing Atractosporales ord. nov. and six new families. Fungal Diversity 85, 75–110.

 

Entry by

Wei Dong, Faculty of Agriculture and Food, Kunming University of Science & Technology, Kunming 650500, China, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand, Innovative Agriculture Research Center, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand, Center of Excellence for Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand, Innovative Institute for Plant Health, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Haizhu District, Guangzhou 510225, China

 

Published online 15 February 2021

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