Fungalpedia – Note 755, Sympoventuriaceae

 

Sympoventuriaceae Y. Zhang ter, C.L. Schoch & K.D. Hyde

Citation when using this data: Karimi O et al. 2025 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.

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

Sympoventuriaceae comprises 22 accepted genera that are saprobic, endophytic, or plant pathogenic (Hyde et al. 2024). It was first described by Zhang et al. (2011) based on phylogenetic analyses using the combined SSU, LSU, tef-1α, rpb1 and rpb2 sequence data, forming a distinct clade close to Venturiaceae in Venturiales and included genera like Sympoventuria, Veronaeopsis simplex, and fusicladium-like species. Wei et al. (2022) re-evaluated the family, accepting 22 genera based on morphology and molecular data. Both sexual and asexual morphs occur, with many hyphomycetous genera producing conidia through rhexolytic secession (Wei et al. 2022, Zhang et al. 2024b). Sexual morphs have subglobose to globose ascomata with brown setae or hyphal-like appendages, bitunicate asci, and hyaline or brown, fusoid-ellipsoidal, clavate, or muriform ascospores, with or without a mucilaginous sheath (Wei et al. 2022, Zhang et al. 2024b). 

Type genus: Sympoventuria Crous & Seifert, Fungal Diversity 25: 31 (2007).

 

References

Hyde KD, Noorabadi MT, Thiyagaraja V, He MQ, et al. 2024 – The 2024 Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa. Mycosphere 15, 5146–6239. 

Wei TP, Zhang H, Zeng XY, Crous PW et al. 2022 – Re-evaluation of Sympoventuriaceae. Persoonia 48, 219–260. 

Zhang Y, Crous PW, Schoch CL, Bahkali AH et al. 2011 – A molecular, morphological and ecological re-appraisal of Venturiales—a new order of Dothideomycetes. Fungal Diversity 51, 249–277. 

Zhang ZY, Pan H, Tao G, Li X, et al. 2024b – Culturable mycobiota from Guizhou Wildlife Park in China. Mycosphere 15, 654–763. 

 

Entry by

Omid Karimi, State Key Laboratory of Discovery and Utilization of Functional Components in Traditional Chinese Medicine & School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Guizhou Medical University, Guian New District, Guizhou 550004, China, Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand, School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand

 

Published online 28 July 2025

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