Fungalpedia – Note 2533, Minutisphaeraceae

 

Minutisphaeraceae. Raja, Oberlies, Shearer & A.N. Mill.

Citation when using this data: Boonmee S et al. 2021 – Fungalpedia.

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Classification: Minutisphaerales, Incertae sedis, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

Notes: Minutisphaeraceae comprises single genus Minutisphaera and its members commonly found as saprobic on submerged wood in freshwater habitat (Ferrer et al. 2011; Raja et al. 2015; Bao et al. 2019a). The family is characterized by globose to subglobose, erumpent to superficial, dark pigmented ascomata, obpyriform to obclavate asci, oblong, clavate to broadly fusiform, septate, hyaline to pale brown ascospores, with or without a gelatinous sheath and filamentous appendages (Raja et al. 2015). 

Type genus: Minutisphaera Shearer, A.N. Mill. & A. Ferrer, Mycologia 103(2): 415 (2011).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Minutisphaeraceae.

 

References

Bao DF, Hyde KD, Luo ZL, Su HY, Nalumpang S 2019a – Minutisphaera aquaticum sp. nov. increases the known diversity of Minutisphaeraceae. Asian J Mycol 2:306–314.

Ferrer A, Miller AN, Shearer CA 2011 – Minutisphaera and Natipusilla: two new genera of freshwater Dothideomycetes. Mycologia 103:411–423.

Raja HA, El-Elimat T, Oberlies NH, Shearer CA, Miller AN, Tanaka K, Hashimoto A, Fournier J 2015 – Minutisphaerales (Dothideomycetes, Ascomycota): a new order of freshwater ascomycetes including a new family, Minutisphaeraceae, and two new species from North Carolina, USA. Mycologia 107:845–862.

 

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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