Fungalpedia – Note 970, Amorosiaceae

 

Amorosiaceae. Thambug. & K.D. Hyde.

Citation when using this data: de Silva NI et al. 2022 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.

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Classification: Pleosporales, Pleosporomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

Amorosiaceae was introduced by Thambugala et al. (2015), to include Amorosia as the type genus. Amorosiaceae members can be distinguished from their phylogenetically closely related families (i.e., Lophiostomataceae, Teichosporaceae, Sporormiaceae) from their hyphomycete asexual morphs (elongate-clavate, uni- to multi-septate conidia) (Thambugala et al. 2015, Hongsanan et al. 2020). The sexual morphs of Amorosiaceae have immersed to semi-immersed ascomata with crest-like, papillate ostiole and hyaline, 1–3-septate ascospores with mucilaginous sheath (Thambugala et al. 2015). Four genera are accepted in this family, viz. Alfoldia, Amorosia, Amorocoelophoma and Angustimassarina (Hongsanan et al. 2020).

Type genus: Amorosia Mantle & D. Hawksw., in Mantle, Hawksworth, Pažoutová, Collinson & Rassing, Mycol. Res. 110(12): 1373 (2006).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Amorosiaceae.

 

References

Hongsanan S, Hyde KD, Phookamsak R, Wanasinghe DN et al. 2020a – Refined families of Dothideomycetes: Dothideomycetidae and Pleosporomycetidae. Mycosphere 11, 1553–2107.

Thambugala KM, Hyde KD, Tanaka K, Tian Q et al. 2015 – Towards a natural classification and backbone tree for Lophiostomataceae, Floricolaceae, and Amorosiaceae fam. nov. Fungal Diversity 74, 199–266.

 

Entry by

Nimali Indeewari de Silva, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand, Research Center of Microbial Diversity and Sustainable Utilization, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand.

 

Published online 18 November 2022

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