Leptosphaeriaceae

Fungalpedia – Note 951, Leptosphaeriaceae

 

Leptosphaeriaceae. M.E. Barr.

Citation when using this data: Brahmanage RS et al. 2020 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.

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

Members of Leptosphaeriaceae are saprobes, hemibiotrophs or pathogens on stems and leaves of herbaceous or woody plants in terrestrial and aquatic habitats (Hyde et al. 2013, Ariyawansa et al. 2015b, Dayarathne et al. 2015, Jones et al. 2015, Liu et al. 2015, Wanasinghe et al. 2016, Tennakoon et al. 2017). Barr (1987) introduced Leptosphaeriaceae, and designated Leptosphaeria Ces. & De Not. as the type of the family. Species in Leptosphaeriaceae are characterized by immersed, erumpent or superficial, perithecial ascomata with single papillate ostioles, fissitunicate, cylindrical asci and hyaline to brown, transversely septate ascospores (Hyde et al. 2013, Ariyawansa et al. 2015b, Phookamsak et al. 2019, Hongsanan et al. 2020). The asexual morphs of taxa in Leptosphaeriaceae are coelomycetes (Heterospora chenopodii (Westend.) Gruyter) or hyphomycetes (De Gruyter et al. 2013, Hyde et al. 2013, Wanasinghe et al. 2016, Tennakoon et al. 2017). Twelve genera are accepted in Leptosphaeriaceae (Wijayawardene et al. 2020, Hongsanan et al. 2020). 

Type genus: Leptosphaeria Ces. & De Not., Comm. Soc. crittog. Ital. 1(fasc. 4): 234 (1863).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Leptosphaeriaceae.

 

References

Ariyawansa HA, Phukhamsakda C, Thambugala KM, Bulgakov TS et al. 2015b – Revision and phylogeny of Leptosphaeriaceae. Fungal Diversity 74(1), 19–51.

Barr ME. 1987a – Prodromus to class Loculoascomyctes. Published by the author, Amherst, MA. 168 pp. 1991. Notes on and additions to North American members of the Herpotrichiellaceae. Mycotaxon 41, 419–436.

Dayarathne MC, Phookamsak R, Ariyawansa HA, Jones EBG et al. 2015 – Phylogenetic and morphological appraisal of Leptosphaeria italica sp. nov. (Leptosphaeriaceae, Pleosporales) from Italy. Mycosphere 6, 634–642.

De Gruyter J, Woudenberg JH, Aveskamp MM, Verkley GJ et al. 2013 – Redisposition of Phoma-like anamorphs in Pleosporales. Studies in Mycology 75, 1– 36.

Hongsanan S, Hyde KD, Phookamsak R, Boonmee S et al. 2020 – Refined families of Dothideomycetes. Fungal diversity (in press)

Hyde KD, Jones EBG, Liu JK, Ariya

Phookamsak R, Hyde KD, Jeewon R, Bhat DJ et al. 2019 – Fungal diversity notes 929–1035: taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions on genera and species of fungi. Fungal Divers 95, 1–273.

Tennakoon DS, Phookamsak R, Wanasinghe DN, Yang JB et al. 2017 – Morphological and phylogenetic insights resolve Plenodomus sinensis (Leptosphaeriaceae) as a new species. Phytotaxa 324(1), 73–82.

Wanasinghe DN, Camporesi E, Hu DM. 2016 – Neoleptosphaeria jonesii sp. nov., a novel saprobic sexual species, in Leptosphaeriaceae. Mycosphere 7, 1368–1377.

Wijayawardene NN, Hyde KD, Al-Ani LKT, Tedersoo L et al. 2020 – Outline of Fungi and fungi-like taxa. Mycosphere 11, 1060–1456.

 

Entry by

Rashika S. Brahmanage, Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100, Thailand, Institute of Plant and Environment Protection, Beijing Academy of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, Beijing 100097, People’s Republic of China, School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, Chiang Rai, 57100, Thailand

 

Published online 29 September 2020

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