Fungalpedia – Note 888, Sporidesmiaceae

 

Sporidesmiaceae. Fr.

Citation when using this data: Dong W et al. 2021 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank

Classification: Incertae sedis, Pleosporomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

Sporidesmiaceae was widely used since the molecular work was carried out by Su et al. (2016). Sporidesmiaceae comprises a single genus Sporidesmium, however, Sporidesmium has been shown to be polyphyletic (Yang et al. 2018, Liu et al. 2019). Some sporidesmium-like taxa, which are phylogenetically distant from Sporidesmiaceae sensu stricto, have been placed in Distoseptisporaceae (Su et al. 2016), while others are uncertain. Distoseptisporaceae and Sporidesmiaceae are morphologically very similar, and DNA sequence data is the main evidence to delimit the two families. The family status of Sporidesmiaceae was confirmed by Hyde et al. (2020) based on a divergence time study.

Type genus – Sporidesmium Link

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Sporidesmium.

 

References

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

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

Su HY, Hyde KD, Maharachchikumbura SSN, Ariyawansa HA et al. 2016 – The families Distoseptisporaceae fam. nov., Kirschsteiniotheliaceae, Sporormiaceae and Torulaceae, with new species from freshwater in Yunnan Province, China. Fungal Diversity 80, 375–409.

Yang J, Maharachchikumbura SSN, Liu JK, Hyde KD et al. 2018 – Pseudostanjehughesia aquitropica gen. et sp. nov. and Sporidesmium sensu lato species from freshwater habitats. Mycological Progress 17, 591–616.

 

Entry by

Wei Dong, Faculty of Agriculture and Food, Kunming University of Science & Technology, Kunming 650500, China, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand, Innovative Agriculture Research Center, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50200, Thailand, Center of Excellence for Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand, Innovative Institute for Plant Health, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Haizhu District, Guangzhou 510225, China

 

Published online 15 February 2021

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