Fungalpedia – Note 986, Roussoellaceae

 

Roussoellaceae. Liu, Phookamsak, Dai & K.D. Hyde.

Citation when using this data: de Silva NI et al. 2022 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.

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

This family was introduced by Liu et al. (2014) to accommodate Roussoella with
R. nitidula as the type species. Initially, three genera were accommodated in this family viz. Neoroussoella, Roussoella and Roussoellopsis (Liu et al. 2014). Jaklitsch & Voglmayr (2016) synonymized this family under Thyridariaceae based on phylogeny data, but subsequently Tibpromma et al. (2017) argued that Roussoellaceae and Thyridariaceae were separate families in Pleosporales. This family is now recognized as a well-resolved family in Pleosporales (Hongsanan et al. 2020a). Twelve genera are accommodated in this family (Hongsanan et al. 2020a, Mapook et al. 2020). 

Type genus: Roussoella Sacc., in Saccardo & Paoletti, Atti Inst. Veneto Sci. lett., ed Arti, Sér. 6 6: 410 (1888).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Roussoellaceae.

 

References

Liu JK, Phookamsak R, Dai DQ, Tanaka K et al. 2014 – Roussoellaceae, a new pleosporalean family to accommodate the genera Neoroussoella gen. nov., Roussoella and Roussoellopsis. Phytotaxa 181, 1–33.

Jaklitsch WM, Voglmayr H. 2016 – Hidden diversity in Thyridaria and a new circumscription of the Thyridariaceae. Studies in Mycology 85, 35–64.

Tibpromma S, Hyde KD, Jeewon R, Maharachchikumbura SSN et al. 2017 – Fungal diversity notes 491–602: taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions to fungal taxa. Fungal Diversity 83, 1–261.

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

Mapook A, Hyde KD, McKenzie EHC, 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.

 

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

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