Fungalpedia – Note 757, Botryosphaeriaceae

 

Botryosphaeriaceae Theiss. & H. Syd. 

Citation when using this data: Karimi O et al. 2025 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.

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Classification: Botryosphaeriales, Incertae sedis, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi 

Theissen and Sydow (1918) established Botryosphaeriaceae with Botryosphaeria as the type genus, along with Botryosphaeria, Dibotryona, and Phaeobotryon. Currently, there are 22 accepted genera in Botryosphaeriaceae (Hyde et al. 2024). Members of this family are reported as plant pathogens, endophytes, and saprobes on various hosts (Phillips et al. 2013, Manawasinghe et al. 2021, 2022, Wu et al. 2023, Samarakoon et al. 2024, Yu et al. 2024b, Tian et al. 2024). The family Botryosphaeriaceae is characterized by its sexual morph, which features uni- to multi-loculate ascostromata with 8-spored, bitunicate asci and ascospores that are hyaline to brown, aseptate, or septate (Phillips et al. 2013). The asexual morph includes coelomycetes that produce uni- to multi-loculate pycnidia, hyaline phialidic conidiogenous cells, and large conidia that may be hyaline or dematiaceous (Phillips et al. 2013).

= Endomelanconiopsidaceae Tao Yang & Crous.

Type genus: Botryosphaeria Ces. & De Not., Comm. Soc. crittog. Ital. 1(fasc. 4): 211 (1863).

 

References

Hyde KD, Noorabadi MT, Thiyagaraja V, He MQ, et al. 2024 – The 2024 Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa. Mycosphere 15, 5146–6239. 

Manawasinghe IS, Calabon MS, Jones EBG, Zhang YX et al. 2022 – Mycosphere notes 345–386. Mycosphere 13, 454–557.

Manawasinghe IS, Jayawardena RS, Li HL, Zhou YY et al. 2021 – Microfungi associated with Camellia sinensis: A case study of leaf and shoot necrosis on Tea in Fujian, China. Mycosphere 12, 430–518.

Phillips AJL, Alves A, Abdollahzadeh J, Slippers B et al. 2013 – The Botryosphaeriaceae: genera and species known from culture. Studies in Mycology 76, 51–167.

Samarakoon BC, Wanasinghe DN, Samarakoon MC, Bundhun D, et al. 2024 – Exploring fungi: a taxonomic and phylogenetic study of leaf-inhabiting Ascomycota in Musa species from northern Thailand, with a global checklist. Mycosphere 15, 1901–2174.

Theissen F, Sydow H. 1918 – Vorentwürfe zu den Pseudosphaeriales. Annales Mycologici 16, 1– 34.

Tian XG, Bao DF, Karunarathna SC, Jayawardena RS et al. 2024 – Taxonomy and phylogeny of ascomycetes associated with selected economically important monocotyledons in China and Thailand. Mycosphere 15, 1–274. 

Wu N, Dissanayake AJ, Du HZ, Liu JK. 2023 – Morpho-phylogenetic evidence reveals novel species and new records of Botryosphaeriaceae in China and Thailand. Journal of Fungi 9, 1051.

Yu XD, Zhang SN, Liu JK 2024b – Novel hyphomycetous fungi associated with bamboo from Sichuan, China. Phytotaxa 634, 235–254.

 

Entry by

Omid Karimi, State Key Laboratory of Discovery and Utilization of Functional Components in Traditional Chinese Medicine & School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guizhou Medical University, Guian New District, Guizhou 550004, China, 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 28 July 2025

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