Fungalpedia – Note 3198, Aplosporellaceae

 

Aplosporellaceae. Slippers, Boissin & Crous.

Citation when using this data: Jayawardena RS et al. 2023  – Fungalpedia.

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank

Classification:Botryosphaeriales, Dothideomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

Aplosporellaceae was introduced in Botryosphaeriales with two genera Aplosporella and

Bagnisiella (Slippers et al. 2013). Sharma et al. (2017) added Alanomyces as a new genus in this family based on four loci phylogeny. Two genera are accepted in Aplosporellaceae viz. Alanomyces and Aplosporella (Dissanayake et al. 2021, Wijayawardene et al. 2022).

Type genus: Aplosporella Speg., Anal. Soc. cient. argent. 10(4): 157 (1880)

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Aplosporellaceae.

References

Dissanayake AJ, Chen YY, Cheewangkoon R, Liu JK 2021 – Occurrence and Morpho-Molecular Identification of Botryosphaeriales Species from Guizhou Province. China J Fungi 7:893.

Sharma R, Kulkarni G, Sonawane MS 2017 – Alanomyces, a new genus of Aplosporellaceae based on four loci phylogeny. Phytotaxa 297:168–175.

Slippers B, Boissin E, Phillips AJL, Groenewald JZ et al. 2013 – Phylogenetic lineages in the Botryosphaeriales: a systematic and evolutionary framework. Stud Mycol 76:31–49.

Wijayawardene NN, Hyde KD, Dai DQ, Sánchez-García M, et al. 2022 – Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa – 2021. Mycospher 13:53–453.

Entry by

Jayawardena Ruvishika Shehali, Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand, School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100, Thailand.

Published online  18 September 2026

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