Fungalpedia – Note 766, Hypocreaceae

 

Hypocreaceae. De Not.

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

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Classification: Hypocreales, Hypocreomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

Lindau (1897) established the family Hypocreaceae (Hypocreales), based on the genus Hypocrea, introduced earlier by Fries (1825). The family has undergone several taxonomic revisions over the years (Seaver 1909a, b, 1910a, b, 1911, Nannfeldt 1932, Petch 1938, Miller 1949, Luttrell 1951, Dingley 1951, Munk 1957, Gäumann 1964, Kreisel 1969, Rogerson 1970, Rossman et al. 1999). Currently, the family includes 17 accepted genera: Arachnocrea, Dialhypocrea, Escovopsioides, Escovopsis, Hypocreopsis, Hypomyces, Kiflimonium, Lichenobarya, Mycogone, Protocrea, Rogersonia, Sepedonium, Sphaerostilbella, Sporophagomyces, Stephanoma, Trichoderma, and Verticimonosporium (Hyde et al. 2024). Members of Hypocreaceae are characterized by perithecia that are typically immersed in a stroma or seated on a subiculum and often disarticulating ascospores (Perera et al. 2023).

Type Genus: Hypocrea Fr., Syst. orb. veg. (Lundae): 104 (1825).

 

References

Dingley JM. 1951 – The Hypocreales of New Zealand. I, Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 79, 55–61.

Fries E. 1825 – Systema orbis vegetabilis: Primas lineas novae constructionis periclitatur Elias Fries. e Typographia Academica.

Gäumann E. 1964 – Die Pi1ze. Birkhauser, Basel, 541 pages.

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

Kreisel H. 1969 – Grunzüge eines natürlichen Systems der Pilze. J. Cramer. Lehre 1–245.

Lindau G. 1897 – Hypocreales. In: Engler HA, Prantl KAE (eds) Die natiirlichen Pflanzenfamilien, vol 1. Verlag W. Engelman, Leipzig, 343–372.

Luttrell ES. 1951 – Taxonomy of the Pyrenomycetes. Univ Mo Stud. 24:1–120.

Miller JH. 1949 – A revision of the classification of the Ascomycetes with special emphasis on the Pyrenomycetes. Mycologia 41, 99–127.

Munk A. 1957 – Danish pyrenomycetes, a preliminary flora. Dan Bot Arkiv. 17, 1–491.

Nannfeldt JA. 1932 – Studien über die Morphologie und Systematik der nicht-lichenisierten inoperculaten Discomyceten. Doctoral Dissertation, Uppsala: Almqvist & Wiksell.

Perera RH, Hyde KD, Jones EBG, Maharachchikumbura SSN, et al. 2023 – Profile of Bionectriaceae, Calcarisporiaceae, Hypocreaceae, Nectriaceae, Tilachlidiaceae, Ijuhyaceae fam. nov., Stromatonectriaceae fam. nov. and Xanthonectriaceae fam. nov. Fungal Diversity 118(1), 95–271.

Petch T. 1938 – British Hypocreales. Transactions of the British Mycological Society. 21, 243–305.

Rogerson CT. 1970 – The hypocrealean fungi (Ascomycetes, Hypocreales). Mycologia. 42, 865–910.

Rossman AY, Samuels GJ, Rogerson CT, Lowen R et al. 1999 – Genera of Bionectriaceae, Hypocreaceae and Nectriaceae (Hypocreales, Ascomycetes). Studies in Mycology 42, 1–248.

Seaver FJ. 1909a – The Hypocreales of North America. I. Mycologia. 1, 41–76.

Seaver FJ. 1909b – The Hypocreales of North America. II. Mycologia. 1, 177–207.

Seaver FJ. 1910a – The Hypocreales of North America. III. Mycologia. 2, 48–92.

Seaver FJ. 1910b – Hypocreales, North American. Flora. 3, 1–88.

Seaver FJ. 1911 – The Hypocreales of North America IV. Mycologia. 3, 207–230.

 

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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