Fungalpedia – Note 907, Hysteriaceae

 

Hysterium. Chevall.

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

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank

Classification Hysteriales, Pleosporomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

Hysteriaceae was introduced by Chevallier (1826) which has been traditionally defined as specialized ascocarp termed the hysterothecium (Clements 1909). There are 13 genera in this family viz; Actidiographium, Gloniella, Gloniopsis, Hysterobrevium, Hysterocarina, Hysterodifractum, Hysteroglonium, Oedohysterium, Ostreichnion, Pseudoscypha, Psiloglonium, Rhytidhysteron and Hysterium as the type genus (Hongsanan et al. 2020b). 

Type genus: Hysterium Pers., Neues Mag. Bot. 1: 85 (1794)

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Hysteriaceae.

 

References

Chevallier FF. 1826 – Flore Ge´ne´rale des Environs de Paris [General Flora of the Area Around Paris]. Ferra Jeune, France, 1–674.

Clements FE. 1909 – The Genera of Fungi. H. W. Wilson Co., Minneapolis, MN.

Hongsanan S, Hyde KD, Phookamsak R, Wanasinghe DN et al. 2020b – Refined families of Dothideomycetes: Dothideomycetidae and Pleosporomycetidae. Mycosphere 11, 1553–2107.

 

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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