Didymosphaeriaceae

The Didymosphaeriaceae are a family of fungi in the order Pleosporales. The family was erected by Anders Munk in 1953.

Didymosphaeriaceae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Dothideomycetes
Order: Pleosporales
Family: Didymosphaeriaceae
Munk (1953)[1]
Type genus
Didymosphaeria
Fuckel (1870)
Genera

Taxa have a cosmopolitan distribution, and are saprobic in both woody and herbaceous plants. Some species are parasitic on other fungi.[2] The validity of the family as a distinct taxonomic unit has been questioned in a recent (2014) publication that suggests that the genera Appendispora, Phaeodothis, Roussoella, and Verruculina should be moved into other families.[3]

The type genus is Didymosphaeria, first described by Karl Wilhelm Gottlieb Leopold Fuckel in 1870.

References

  1. Munk A. (1953). "The system of the Pyrenomycetes". Dansk Botanisk Arkiv. 15 (2): 128.
  2. Cannon PF, Kirk PM (2007). Fungal Families of the World. Wallingford, UK: CAB International. ISBN 978-0-85199-827-5.
  3. Ariyawansa HA, Camporesi E, Thambugala KM, Mapook A, Kang J-C, Alias SA, Chukeatirote EC, Thines M, McKenzie EH, Hyde KD (2014). "Confusion surrounding Didymosphaeria—phylogenetic and morphological evidence suggest Didymosphaeriaceae is not a distinct family". Phytotaxa. 176 (1): 102–119. doi:10.11646/Phytotaxa.176.1.12.


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