Fungalpedia – Note 3000, Pleurotheciales

 

Pleurotheciales Réblová & Seifert.

Citation when using this data: Jing Yang et al. 2023 – Fungalpedia. 

Index Fungorum, Faceoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank.

Classification: Hypocreomycetidae, Sordariomycetes, Pezizomycotin, Ascomycota, Dikarya, Fungi.

Notes: Pleurotheciales was introduced at the ordinal rank based on the phylogenetic analyses of combined ITS, SSU, LSU, β-tubulin, mcm7, and RPB2 sequences (Réblová et al. 2016c). The order is monotypic with the type family Pleurotheciaceae which accommodates twelve genera (Hyde et al. 2020a; Réblová et al. 2020a; Dong et al. 2021b). Hyde et al. (2020a) and Réblová et al. (2020a) illustrated the changed history of the problematic taxa in the order. Xia et al. (2017) provided reference sequences of two Rhexoacrodictys species considered in Savoryellaceae. With further phylogenetic analysis, Luo et al. (2019) accepted these two Rhexoacrodictys species in Pleurotheciaceae which was ignored by Hyde et al. (2020a). The phylogenetic result in this study (Jing Yang et al. 2023) agrees with Luo et al. (2019) to treat Rhexoacrodictys as a member of Pleurotheciaceae.

Type species: Pleurotheciaceae Réblová & Seifert.

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Pleurotheciales.

 

References

Dong W, Jeewon R, Hyde KD, Yang EF et al. 2021b – Five novel taxa from freshwater habitats and new taxonomic insights of Pleurotheciales and Savoryellomycetidae. J Fungi 7:711.

Hyde KD, Norphanphoun C, Maharachchikumbura SSN, Bhat DJ et al. 2020a – Refined families of Sordariomycetes. Mycosphere 11(1):305–1059.

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

Réblová M, Hernández-Restrepo M, Fournier J, Nekvindová J. 2020a – New insights into the systematics of Bactrodesmium and its allies and introducing new genera, species and morphological patterns in the Pleurotheciales and Savoryellales (Sordariomycetes). Stud Mycol 95:415–466.

Réblová M, Seifert KA, Fournier J, Štěpánek V. 2016c – Newly recognized lineages of perithecial ascomycetes: the new orders Conioscyphales and Pleurotheciales. Persoonia 37:57–81.

Xia JW, Ma YR, Li Z, Zhang XG. 2017 – Acrodictys-like wood decay fungi from southern China, with two new families Acrodictyaceae and Junewangiaceae. Sci Rep 7:7888.

Yang J, Liu LL, Jones EBG. et al. 2023 – Freshwater fungi from karst landscapes in China and Thailand. Fungal Diversity 119, 1–212. 

 

Entry by

Jing Yang, School of Life Science and Technology, Center for Informational Biology, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, People’s Republic of China, School of Science, Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand, Guizhou Key Laboratory of Agricultural Biotechnology, Guizhou Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Guiyang 550006, People’s Republic of China.

 

Published online 26 August 2026

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