Fungalpedia – Note 921, Pleosporaceae

 

Pleosporaceae. Nitschke.

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

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank

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

Pleosporaceae consists of pathogenic and saprobic taxa on a wide range of hosts (Valenzuela-Lopez et al. 2018). Twenty-three genera are accepted and for taxonomic treatments, we follow Hongsanan et al. (2020b). 

Type genus: Pleospora Rabenh. ex Ces. & De Not., Comm. Soc. crittog. Ital. 1(fasc. 4): 217 (1863).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Pleosporaceae.

 

References

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

Valenzuela-Lopez N, Cano-Lira JF, Guarro J, Sutton DA et al. 2018 – Coelomycetous Dothideomycetes with emphasis on the families Cucurbitariaceae and Didymellaceae. Studies in Mycology 90, 1–69.

 

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

Back to Glossary Index Page