Fungalpedia – Note 2744, Calosphaeriales

 

Calosphaeriales. M.E. Barr.

Citation when using this data: Huang SK et al. 2021 – Fungalpedia.

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank

Classification: Diaporthomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

The genera in Calosphaeriales are characterized by black ascomata with an eccentric papilla or long neck, with con spicuously septate, tapered paraphyses, numerous, clavate or subglobose asci borne from fascicled or spicate ascog enous hyphae, hyaline, allantoid to subcylindrical ascospores and phialidic hyphomycetous asexual morphs (Barr 1985; Réblová et al. 2004, 2015; Réblová and Mostert 2007). Calo sphaeriales and Togniniales are similar in morphology, but are phylogenetically distant (Réblová et al. 2015). Ascogenous hypha, on which the asci form, are con spicuous character of members in Calosphaeriales and Tog niniales, and is an important feature to distinguish the genera in these two orders (Barr 1985; Mostert et al. 2006; Damm et al. 2008; Réblová et al. 2015). Two families are included in this order, Calosphaeriaceae with four genera, and the monotypic Pleurostomataceae (Wijayawardene et al. 2020). Jobellisiaceae was transferred to Calosphaeriales based on multigene analysis (Hongsanan et al. 2017). How ever, Hongsanan et al. (2017) mentioned that Jobellisiaceae is an unstable group and it is closely related to Calosphaeri ales, Diaporthales and Togniniales (Hyde et al. 2017). We place Jobellisiaceae under Jobellisiales (see notes for Jobellisiales). Calosphaeriales is sister to Tog niniales in Diaporthomycetidae.

Type family: Calosphaeriaceae Munk, Dansk bot. Ark. 17(no. 1): 278 (1957).

 

References

Barr ME 1985 – Notes on the Calosphaeriales. Mycologia 77(4):549–565.

Damm U, Crous PW, Fourie PH 2008 – A fissitunicate ascus mechanism in the Calosphaeriaceae, with novel species of Jattaea and Calosphaeria on Prunus wood. Persoonia 20:39–52.

Hongsanan S, Maharachchikumbura SS, Hyde KD et al 2017 – An updated phylogeny of Sordariomycetes based on phylogenetic and molecular clock evidence. Fungal Divers 84:25–41.

Hyde KD, Maharachchikumbura SS, Hongsanan S et al 2017 – The ranking of fungi: a tribute to David L. Hawksworth on his 70th birthday. Fungal Divers 84(1):1–23.

Mostert L, Groenewald JZ, Summerbell RC et al 2006 – Taxonomy and pathology of Togninia (Diaporthales) and its Phaeoacremonium anamorphs. Stud Mycol 54:1–113.

Réblová M, Mostert L 2007 – Romellia is congeneric with Togninia, and description of Conidiotheca gen. nov. for one species of this genus with polysporous asci. Mycol Res 111(3):299–307.

Réblová M, Mostert L, Gams W et al 2004 – New genera in the Calosphaeriales: Togniniella and its anamorph Phaeocrella, and Calosphaeriophora as anamorph of Calosphaeria. Stud Mycol 50(2):533–550.

Wijayawardene NN, Hyde KD, Al-Ani LKT et al 2020 – Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa. Mycosphere 11(1):1060–1456.

 

Entry by

Shi-Ke Huang, State Key Laboratory Breeding Base of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Key Laboratory of Green Pesticide and Agricultural Bioengineering, Ministry of Education, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China, The Engineering Research Center of Southwest Bio-Pharmaceutical Resources, Ministry of Education, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, Guizhou Province, 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, The Mushroom Research Centre, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, China

 

Published online 18 June 2026

Back to Glossary Index Page