Fungalpedia – Note 911, Didymosphaeriaceae

 

Didymosphaeriaceae. Munk, Dansk bot. Ark.

Citation when using this data Manawasinghe IS et al. 2022 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank

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

Didymosphaeriaceae is an important family typified by Didymosphaeria with D. epidermidis as the type species (Munk 1953). Members of this family are characterized by brown, 1-septate ascospores and trabeculate pseudoparaphyses that anastomose mostly above the asci (Hyde et al. 2013, Ariyawansa et al. 2014). Didymosphaeriaceae species are saprobes, endophytes and pathogens of a wide range of hosts worldwide (Liu et al. 2015, Wanasinghe et al. 2016). 

Type species: Didymosphaeria Fuckel, Jb. nassau. Ver. Naturk. 23-24: 140 (1870) [1869-70].

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Didymosphaeriaceae.

 

References

Ariyawansa HA, Phookamsak R, Tibpromma S, Kang JC et al. 2014 – A molecular and morphological reassessment of Diademaceae. The Scientific World Journal. 675348, 1–11.

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

Liu JK, Hyde KD, Jones EBG, Ariyawansa HA et al. 2015 – Fungal diversity notes 1–110: taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions to fungal species. Fungal Diversity 72, 1–197.

Munk A. 1953 – The system of the pyrenomycetes. A contribution to a natural classification of the group Sphaeriales sensu Lindau. Dansk Botanisk Arkiv 15, 1–163.

Wanasinghe DN, Jones EBG, Camporesi E, Dissanayake AJ et al. 2016 – Taxonomy and phylogeny of Laburnicola gen. nov. and Paramassariosphaeria gen. nov. (Didymosphaeriaceae, Massarineae, Pleosporales). Fungal Biology 120, 1354–1373.

 

Entry by

Ishara Sandeepani Manawasinghe, Innovative Institute for Plant Health, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Guangzhou 510225, PR of China

Published online 25 April 2022

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