Fungalpedia – Note 993, Phyllostictaceae
Phyllostictaceae Fr.
Citation when using this data: de Silva NI et al. 2022 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.
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Classification: Botryosphaeriales, Incertae sedis, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Members of Phyllostictaceae are foliicolous, plant pathogenic, endophytic or saprobic (Phillips et al. 2019). The sexual morph is characterized by pseudothecial, uniloculate ascostromata containing hyaline, aseptate, ellipsoid-fusoid to limoniform ascospores and asexual morph by pycnidial, globose conidiomata containing hyaline, ellipsoid-fusoid to obovoid or ovoid conidia with mucilaginous sheath (Wikee et al. 2013, Phillips et al. 2019). Fries (1849) proposed 1024 Phyllostictaceae (as Phyllostictei) and Hawksworth & David (1989) accepted to use of the family name Phyllostictaceae. Seaver (1922) used Phyllostictales and Phyllostictaceae to accommodate Phyllosticta species. Wikee et al. (2013) reinstated Phyllostictaceae as a distinct family in Botryosphaeriales to accommodate Phyllosticta species (= Guignardia) based on morphology and phylogeny. The phylogenies of ITS and LSU sequence data and evolutionary divergence times reported in Phillips et al. (2019) include Pseudofusicoccum as an additional genus within Phyllostictaceae.
Type genus: Phyllosticta Pers., Traité champ. Comest. (Paris): 55, 147 (1818).
References
Fries EM. 1849 – Summa vegetabilium Scandinaviae. Typographis Academica, Uppsala.
Hawksworth DL, David JC. 1989 – Family Names: Index of Fungi Supplement. Wallingford: CABInternational.
Seaver FJ. 1922 – Phyllostictaceae. North American Flora 6, 3–84.
Entry by
Nimali Indeewari de Silva, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand, Research Center of Microbial Diversity and Sustainable Utilization, Faculty of Science, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand.
Published online 18 November 2022