Fungalpedia – Note 937, Magnaporthaceae

 

Magnaporthaceae. P.F. Cannon.

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

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Classification: Magnaporthales, Sordariomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

Magnaporthaceae includes 23 genera and more than 100 species (Wijayawardene et al. 2018, Silva et al. 2019). The host has diversity in saprobes, endophytes, and plant pathogens (Luo et al. 2019, Hyde et al. 2020). Magnaporthaceous taxa are characterised by globose to subglobose perithecial ascomata with long necks, unitunicate cylindrical asci, and filiform or spindle-shaped ascospores (Silva et al. 2019). .

Type genus: Magnaporthe R.A. Krause & R.K. Webster, Mycologia 64(1): 110 (1972).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Magnaporthaceae.

 

References

Hyde KD, de Silva NI, Jeewon R, Bhat JD et al. 2020a – AJOM new records and collections of fungi: 1–100. Asian Journal of Mycology 3: 22–294.

Jayawardena RS, Hyde KD, Chethana KWT, Daranagama DA et al. 2018 – Mycosphere Notes 102–168: Saprotrophic fungi on Vitis in China, Italy, Russia and Thailand. Mycosphere 9, 1–114.

Luo ZL, Hyde KD, Liu JK, Maharachchikumbura SSN et al. 2019 – Freshwater Sordariomycetes. Fungal Diversity 99, 451–660.

Silva RM, Oliveira RJ, Bezerra JD, Bezerra JL et al. 2019 – Bifusisporella sorghi gen. et sp. nov. (Magnaporthaceae) to accommodate an endophytic fungus from Brazil. Mycological Progress 18, 847–854.

 

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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