Fungalpedia – Note 2957, Eriomycetaceae

 

Eriomycetaceae Huanr. & K.D. Hyde.

Citation when using this data: Zhang JF et al. 2023 – Fungalpedia. 

Index Fungorum, Faceoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank.

Classification: Monoblastiales, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Dikarya, Fungi.

Eriomycetaceae was established to accommodate five non-lichenized genera Eriomyces (type genus), Funbolia, Heleiosa, Phellinocrescentia and Pseudopassalora which have been placed in Dothideomycetes genera incertae sedis (Crous et al. 2011a, b, 2014; Hyde et al. 2020b). However, Hongsanan et al. (2020b) provided a refined updated document on orders and families incertae sedis of Dothideomycetes, and synonymized Eriomycetaceae under Monoblastiaceae. In the present phylogenetic analysis (Zhang JF et al. 2023), all of the genera (with available sequence data) that were included within Monoblastiaceae in previous studies (Crous et al. 2020b, 2021b; Hongsanan et al. 2020b; Hyde et al. 2020b; Mortimer et al. 2021) are separated into two clades. One of these is comprised of eight known non-lichenzied genera (Eriomyces, Funbolia, Haudseptoria, Heleiosa, Italiofungus, Neoheleiosa, Phellinocrescentia and Pseudopassalora) and the new genus Karstiomyces established in this study, while other lichenzied genera are located in a seprate clade. This topology is somewhat similar to Hongsanan et al. (2020b), and therefore, we resurrect the family Eriomycetaceae to accommodate the above nine non-lichenzied genera and assign it within Monoblastiales. We reduce Monoblastiaceae to six lichenzied genera (Acrocordia, Anisomeridium, Caprettia, Megalotremis, Monoblastia and Trypetheliopsis).

Type genus: Karstiomyces J.F. Zhang & K.D. Hyde.

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Eriomycetaceae.

 

References

Crous PW, Groenewald JZ, Shivas RG, Edwards J et al. 2011a – Fungal Planet description sheets: 69–91. Persoonia 26:108–156.

Crous PW, Hernández-Restrepo M, Schumacher RK, Cowan DA et al. 2021b – New and interesting fungi. 4. Fungal Syst Evol 7:255–343.

Crous PW, Summerell BA, Swart L, Denman S et al. 2011b – Fungal pathogens of Proteaceae. Persoonia 27:20–45.

Crous PW, Wingfield MJ, Schumacher RK, Akulov A et al. 2020b – New and interesting fungi. 3. Fungal Syst Evol 6:157–231.

Crous PW, Wingfield MJ, Schumacher RK, Summerell BA et al. 2014 – Fungal Planet description sheets: 281–319. Persoonia 33:212–289.

Hongsanan S, Hyde KD, Phookamsak R, Wanasinghe DN et al. 2020b – Refined families of Dothideomycetes: orders and families incertae sedis in Dothideomycetes. Fungal Divers 105:17–318.

Hyde KD, Dong Y, Phookamsak R, Jeewon R et al. 2020b – Fungal Diversity notes 1151–1276: taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions on genera and species of fungal taxa. Fungal Divers 100:5–277.

Mortimer PE, Jeewon R, Xu JC, Lumyong S, Wanasinghe DN 2021 – Morpho-phylo taxonomy of novel dothideomycetous fungi associated with dead woody twigs in Yunnan Province, China. Front Microbiol 12:654683.

Zhang JF, Liu JK, Hyde KD et al. 2023 – Ascomycetes from karst landscapes of Guizhou Province, China. Fungal Diversity 122, 1–160.

 

Entry by

Jinfeng Zhang, Guizhou Provincial Institute of Tea, Guiyang 550006, People’s Republic of China, Guizhou Key Laboratory of Agricultural Biotechnology, Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guiyang 550006, People’s Republic of China, Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand.

 

Published online 14 August 2026

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