Fungalpedia – Note 2546, Leotiales
Leotiales. Korf & Lizoň.
Citation when using this data: Boonmee S et al. 2021 – Fungalpedia.
Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank
Classification: Leotiomycetidae, Leotiomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Notes: Leotiales was introduced by Korf and Lizoň (2001) to accommodate a single family Leotiaceae. Based on multi-gene phylogenetic analyses, Ekanayaka et al. (2019a) included the other two families in this order viz. Cochlearomycetaceae and Tympanidaceae as well as including Gelatinomyces in Leotiales genera incertae sedis. Johnston et al. (2019) introduced a new family Mniaeciaceae to accommodate Mniaecia and also treated Alatospora, Aotearoamyces, Claussenomyces, and Flagellospora in Leotiales. Johnston et al. (2019) also presumed that Gorgomyces, Miniancora, Mycosymbioses, and Satchmopsis possibly belong to Leotiales based on phylogenetic analyses of the ITS region. Wijayawardene et al. (2020) listed four families (Cochlearomycetaceae, Leotiaceae, Mniaeciaceae and Tympanidaceae) and three genera incertae sedis (Aotearoamyces, Alatospora and Flagellospora) in Leotiales. In this study, we introduce a monotypic genus Scelecoleotia to accommodate a coelomycetous asexual species, namely Scelecoleotia eriocamporesi sp. nov. in Leotiales based on multi-gene phylogenetic analyses coupled with morphological characteristics. However, the current phylogenetic status of the new genus could not be classified as any of the families in Leotiales. We, hence, tentatively place the genus in Leotiales genera incertae sedis pending further studies.
Type family: Leotiaceae Corda, Icon. fung. (Prague) 5: 37 (1842).
References
Ekanayaka AH, Hyde KD, Gentekaki E, McKenzie EHC, Zhao Q, Bulgakov TS, Camporesi E 2019a – Preliminary classification of leotiomycetes. Mycosphere 10:310–489.
Johnston PR, Quijada L, Smith CA, Baral HO, Hosoya T, Baschien C, Pärtel K, Zhuang WY, Haelewaters D, Park D, Carl S, LópezGiráldez F, Wang Z, Townsend JP 2019 – A multigene phylogeny toward a new phylogenetic classification for the Leotiomycetes. IMA Fungus 10:1.
Korf RP, Lizoň P 2001 – The status of the ordinal name Leotiales. Czech Mycol 52:255–257.
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Entry by
Saranyaphat Boonmee, 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 6 June 2026
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