The Massarinaceae are a

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in the

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Pleosporales The Pleosporales is the largest order (biology), order in the fungal class Dothideomycetes. By a 2008 estimate, it contained 23 family (biology), families, 332 genera and more than 4700 species. The majority of species are saprobes on decaying pl ...

. Although taxa have a cosmopolitan distribution, they are better-known in

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regions. They are thought to be

saprobic Saprotrophic nutrition or lysotrophic nutrition is a process of chemoheterotrophic extracellular digestion involved in the processing of decayed (dead or waste) organic matter. It occurs in saprotrophs, and is most often associated with fungi ...

in wood and bark; some species are weak pathogens. In 2013, Quaedvlieg and colleagues expanded this family with the genus ''

Stagonospora ''Stagonospora'' is a genus of fungi clustering in the Phaeosphaeriaceae (Quaedvlieg). Several of the species in this genus are plant pathogens. Taxonomy Previously included species include ''S. curtisii''= '' Peyronellaea curtisii'' (leaf ...

'' by showing that the

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of the genus (''Stagonospora paludosa'') actually clustered inside the Massarinaceae and not in the

Phaeosphaeriaceae The Phaeosphaeriaceae are a family of fungi in the order Pleosporales. Species in the family have a cosmopolitan distribution, and are generally nectrotrophic or saprobic on a wide range of plants. Wijayawardene et al. 2020 produced an update t ...

as was previously assumed. Subsequently, ''Stagonospora'', which has several important pathogens on grasses (e.g. ''Stagonospora nodorum'' and ''S. avenae''), was renamed ''Parastagonospora''.

Genera

As accepted by Wijayawardene et al. 2020 (with amounts of species); *'' Byssothecium'' (8) *'' Helminthosporiella'' (1) *''

Helminthosporium ''Helminthosporium'' is a genus of fungi belonging to the family Massarinaceae. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution. Species The following species are recognised in the genus ''Helminthosporium'': *'' Helminthosporium abietis'' *'' H ...

'' (ca. 416) *'' Massarina'' (ca. 100) *'' Mirohelminthosporium'' (1) *'' Pseudodiaporthe'' *'' Pseudodidymosphaeria'' (2) *'' Pseudosplanchnonema'' (1) *'' Semifissispora'' (5) *''

'' (220) *'' Suttonomyces'' (2)

References

Dothideomycetes families Pleosporales Taxa described in 1956 Taxa named by Anders Munk {{Pleosporales stub