Fungalpedia – Note 918, Phaeosphaeriaceae

 

Phaeosphaeriaceae. M.E. Barr.

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

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank

Classification: Saccotheciaceae, Dothideales, Dothideomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

Barr (1979) introduced Phaeosphaeriaceae and designated Phaeosphaeria as the generic type in this family. Phaeosphaeriaceae species have immersed to superficial, globose to subglobose ascomata, short papilla, bitunicate asci and hyaline to pigmented, fusiform to ellipsoidal, fliform, or muriform ascospores (Hongsanan et al. 2020b, Mapook et al. 2020, Phukhams et al. 2020, Tenakoon et al. 2021). The asexual morphs of Phaeosphaeriaceae are commonly known as coelomycetous but there are some hyphomycetous taxa (Phookamsak et al. 2014, Maharachchikumbura et al. 2019, Hongsanan et al. 2020). Wijayawardene et al. (2020) accepted 82 genera in this family. 

Type genus: Phaeosphaeria I. Miyake, Bot. Mag., Tokyo 23: 93 (1909).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Phaeosphaeriaceae.

 

References

Barr ME. 1979 – A classification of Loculoascomycetes. Mycologia, 71, 935–957.

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

Maharachchikumbura SS, Ariyawansa HA, Wanasinghe DN, Dayarathne MC et al. 2019 – Phylogenetic classification and generic delineation of Hydeomyces desertipleosporoides gen. et sp. nov. (Phaeosphaeriaceae) from Jebel Akhdar Mountain in Oman. Phytotaxa 391, 28–38.

Mapook A, Hyde KD, McKenzie EH, Jones EBG et al. 2020 – Taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions to fungi associated with the invasive weed Chromolaena odorata (Siam weed). Fungal Diversity 101, 1–175.

Phookamsak R, Liu JK, McKenzie EH, Manamgoda DS et al. 2014 – Revision of Phaeosphaeriaceae. Fungal Diversity 68, 159–238.

Phukhamsakda C, McKenzie EH, Phillips AJ, Jones EBG et al. 2020 – Microfungi associated with Clematis (Ranunculaceae) with an integrated approach to delimiting species boundaries. Fungal diversity 102, 1–203.

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

 

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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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