Helminthosphaeriaceae
| Helminthosphaeriaceae | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Sordariomycetes |
| Order: | Chaetosphaeriales |
| Family: | Helminthosphaeriaceae Samuels, Cand. & Magni (1997) |
| Type genus | |
| Helminthosphaeria Fuckel (1870)
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The Helminthosphaeriaceae are a family of fungi in the class Sordariomycetes.[1] Species in this family are saprobic, often growing on rotten wood or on the fruit bodies of old mushrooms. They are distributed in temperate areas.[2]
Genera
[edit]As accepted by Wijayawardene et al. 2020 (with amount of species per genus);[3]
- Echinosphaeria A.N. Mill. & Huhndorf (14)
- Helminthosphaeria Fuckel (ca. 20)
- Hilberina Huhndorf & A.N. Mill. (ca. 20)
- Ruzenia O. Hilber (1)
References
[edit]- ^ Samuels GJ, Candoussau F, Magni JF (1997). "Fungicolous pyrenomycetes 1. Helminthosphaeria and the new family Helminthosphaeriaceae". Mycologia. 89 (1): 141–55. doi:10.2307/3761183. JSTOR 3761183.
- ^ Cannon PF, Kirk PM (2007). Fungal Families of the World. Wallingford, UK: CAB International. pp. 154–5. ISBN 978-0-85199-827-5.
- ^ Wijayawardene, Nalin; Hyde, Kevin; Al-Ani, Laith Khalil Tawfeeq; Somayeh, Dolatabadi; Stadler, Marc; Haelewaters, Danny; et al. (2020). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa". Mycosphere. 11: 1060–1456. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/11/1/8. hdl:10481/61998.