The Phaeosphaeriaceae are a
family
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of
fungi
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in the
order
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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 ...
. Species in the family have a
cosmopolitan distribution
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, and are generally
nectrotrophic or
saprobic
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on a wide range of plants.
Wijayawardene et al. 2020 produced an update that recognized 82 genera.
Genera list
As accepted by Wijayawardene et al. 2020;
(with amounts of species)
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Acericola'' (1)
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Allophaeosphaeria'' (3)
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Amarenographium'' (4)
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Amarenomyces'' (2)
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Ampelomyces
''Ampelomyces'' is a genus of Hyperparasite, mycoparasitic fungi in the family Phaeosphaeriaceae. ''Ampelomyces'' parasitizes the group of fungal plant pathogens known as powdery mildews Erysiphales, (Erysiphales). The type species is ''Ampelomyce ...
'' (ca. 5)
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Aphanostigme'' (21)
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Arezzomyces'' (1)
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Banksiophoma'' (1)
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Bhagirathimyces'' (1)
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Bhatiellae'' (1)
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Bricookea'' (1)
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Brunneomurispora'' (1)
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Camarosporioides'' (1)
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Chaetosphaeronema'' (12)
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Dactylidina'' (2)
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Dematiopleospora'' (8)
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Didymocyrtis'' (21)
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Dlhawksworthia'' (3)
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Edenia'' (2)
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Embarria'' (1)
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Equiseticola'' (1)
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Eudarluca'' (8)
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Galiicola'' (3)
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Hydeomyces'' (2)
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Hydeopsis'' (1)
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Italica
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'' (2)
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Jeremyomyces'' (1)
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Juncaceicola'' (8)
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Kwanghwana'' (1)
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Leptospora'' (15)
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Longispora'' (1)
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Loratospora'' (2)
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Mauginiella'' (1)
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Melnikia'' (1)
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Murichromolaenicola'' (2)
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Muriphaeosphaeria'' (3)
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Neoophiobolus'' (1)
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Neosetophoma'' (15)
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Neosphaerellopsis'' (10)
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Neostagonospora'' (6)
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Neostagonosporella'' (1)
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Neosulcatispora'' (2)
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Nodulosphaeria'' (ca. 52)
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Ophiobolopsis'' (1)
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Ophiobolus'' (350)
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Ophiosimulans'' (1)
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Ophiosphaerella'' (10)
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Paraleptospora'' (2)
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Paraloratospora'' (2)
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Paraophiobolus'' (2)
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Paraphoma'' (8)
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Parastagonospora'' (ca. 19)
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Parastagonosporella'' (1)
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Phaeopoacea'' (3)
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Phaeoseptoriella'' (1)
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Phaeosphaeria'' (ca. 95)
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Phaeosphaeriopsis'' (12)
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Phaeostagonospora'' (1)
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Piniphoma'' (1)
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Poaceicola'' (10)
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Populocrescentia'' (3)
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Pseudoophiobolus'' (8)
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Pseudoophiosphaerella'' (1)
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Pseudophaeosphaeria'' (1)
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Pseudostaurosphaeria'' (2)
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Sclerostagonospora'' (ca. 15)
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Scolicosporium'' (13)
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Septoriella'' (includes ''Wojnowicia'' ) (22)
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Setomelanomma'' (1)
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Setophoma'' (6)
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Sulcispora'' (2)
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Tiarospora'' (3)
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Tintelnotia'' (2)
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Vagicola'' (1)
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Vittaliana'' (1)
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Vrystaatia'' (1)
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Wingfieldomyces'' (1)
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Wojnowiciella'' (9)
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Xenophaeosphaeria'' (1)
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Xenophoma'' (1)
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Xenoseptoria'' (1)
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Yunnanensis'' (1)
References
Bibliography
Dothideomycetes families
Taxa named by Margaret Elizabeth Barr-Bigelow
Taxa described in 1979
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