Fungalpedia – Note 989, Teichosporaceae

 

Teichosporaceae M.E. Barr

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

Based on morphological characteristics, Barr (2002) introduced Teichosporaceae to accommodate Teichospora as the type genus. This family is considered a species rich family in Pleosporales, whose members are morphologically, ecologically and phylogenetically diverse (Barr 2002, Hongsanan et al. 2020a, Tennakoon et al. 2021). Twelve genera are accepted in Teichosporaceae, viz. Asymmetrispora, Aurantiascoma, Chaetomastia, Floricola, Loculohypoxylon, Magnibotryascoma, Misturatosphaeria, Pseudoaurantiascoma, Pseudomisturatosphaeria, Ramusculicola, Sinodidymella and Teichospora (Hongsanan et al. 2020a, Tennakoon et al. 2021). In this study, we followed Hongsanan et al. (2020a) and Tennakoon et al. (2021) as the recent treatments of this family.

Type genus: Teichospora Fuckel, Jb. nassau. Ver. Naturk. 23-24: 160 (1870).

 

References

Barr ME. 2002 – Teichosporaceae, another family in the Pleosporales. Mycologia 82, 373–389.

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

Tennakoon DS, Kuo CH, Maharachchikumbura SS, Thambugala KM et al. 2021 – Taxonomic and phylogenetic contributions to Celtis formosana, Ficus ampelas, F. septica, Macaranga tanarius and Morus australis leaf litter inhabiting microfungi. Fungal Diversity 108, 1–215.

 

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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