Fungalpedia – Note 2281, Butleria

 

Butleria Sacc.

Citation when using this data: Hongsanan S et al. 2020 – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.

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Classification: Elsinoaceae, Myriangiales, Dothideomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

Butleria is a monotypic genus and was placed in Myriangiaceae by von Arx & Müller (1975). However, Barr (1979a) placed this genus in Elsinoacae and Lumbsch & Huhndorf (2007, 2010), Li et al. (2011) and Hyde et al. (2013) followed this classification. This genus has similarities with Elsinoaceae in being a parasite on leaves, but differs in having ascostromata on both sides of the leaves, with single asci with a small ocular chamber in each locule and shows similarity to Myriangiaceae in having globose, single asci in each locule. Butleria can be characterized Myriangiaceae by its brown ascospores. Therefore, Jayawardena et al. (2014) excluded this genus from Elsinoaceae and placed it in Myriangiaceae. Dissanyake et al. (2014) followed this. Fresh collections and sequence data are needed to establish it familial position in Dothideomycetes

Type species: Butleria inaghatahani Sacc. [as ‘inaghatahani’], Annls mycol. 12(3): 303 (1914)

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Butleria.

 

References

Barr ME. 1979a – A classification of Loculoascomycetes. Mycologia 71, 935–995.

Dissanayake AJ, Jayawardena RS, Boonmee S, Thambugala KM et al. 2014 – The status of Myriangiaceae (Dothideomycetes). Phytotaxa 176, 219–237.

Hyde KD, Jones EBG, Liu J-K, Ariyawansa H et al. 2013 – Families of Dothideomycetes. Fungal Diversity 63, 1–313.

Jayawardena RS, Ariyawansa HA, Singtripop C, Li YM et al. 2014 – A re-assessment of Elsinoaceae (Myriangiales, Dothideomycetes). Phytotaxa 176, 120–138.

Li YM, Wu H, Cheng H, Hyde KD. 2011 – Morphological studies in Doithideomycetes: Elsinoё (Elsinoaceae), Butleria and three excluded genera. Mycotaxon 115, 507–520.

Lumbsch HT, Huhndorf SM. 2007 – Outline of ascomycota–2007. Myconet 13, 1–58.

Lumbsch HT, Huhndorf SM. 2010 – Outline of Ascomycota 2009. Myconet 14, 1–64.

von Arx JA, Müller E. 1975 – A re-evaluation of the bitunicate Ascomycetes with keys to families and genera. Studies in Mycology 9, 1–159.

 

Entry by

Sinang Hongsanan, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory for Plant Epigenetics, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Microbial Genetic Engineering, College of Life Science and Oceanography, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, People’s Republic of China, Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50002, Thailand 

 

Published online 10 April 2026

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