Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Fungi
Subregnum: Dikarya
Divisio: Ascomycota
Subdivisio: Pezizomycotina
Classis: Dothideomycetes
Ordo: Eremithallales
Familia: Melaspileaceae
Genera: Encephalographa – Melaspilea
Name
Melaspileaceae W. Watson, 1929
Synonyms
Eremithallaceae Lücking & Lumbsch, 2008
References
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Index Fungorum: IF 80992
Melaspileaceae is a family of lichenized, lichenicolous and saprobic fungi within Ascomycota. These fungi have long been poorly understood, and the family's taxonomic position has been unclear because of insufficient molecular data.[1] It was previously included in the order Arthoniales (class Arthoniomycetes)[2] but recent phylogenetic analyses indicate that it instead belongs to the order Eremithallales (class Dothideomycetes).[3]
Eremithallales was circumscribed as a new order in 2008, and Eremithallus costaricensis was included as the only species.[4] The phylogenetic results placing Melaspileaceae in Eremithallales are corresponding with the morphology as the only genus in Eremithallales are sharing morphological similarities with Melaspilea, which is the type genus of Melaspileaceae. They are both being lichenized with a trentepohlioid photobiont and they share similarities in ascomata, exciple, hamathecium, ascus and ascospore types. This means Eremithallaceae has now been synonymized under Melaspileaceae.[3]
References
Ertz, Damien; Diederich, Paul (2015-03-01). "Dismantling Melaspileaceae: a first phylogenetic study of Buelliella, Hemigrapha, Karschia, Labrocarpon and Melaspilea". Fungal Diversity. 71 (1): 141–164. doi:10.1007/s13225-015-0321-1. ISSN 1560-2745. S2CID 256064354.
Lumbsch, Thorsten (2007). "Outline of Ascomycota - 2007". Myconet. 13: 1–58.
Ertz, Damien; Diederich, Paul (2015-03-01). "Dismantling Melaspileaceae: a first phylogenetic study of Buelliella, Hemigrapha, Karschia, Labrocarpon and Melaspilea". Fungal Diversity. 71 (1): 141–164. doi:10.1007/s13225-015-0321-1. ISSN 1560-2745. S2CID 256064354.
Nelsen, M.P.; Lücking, R.; Grube, M.; Mbatchou, J.S.; Muggia, L.; Plata, E. Rivas; Lumbsch, H.T. (2009). "Unravelling the phylogenetic relationships of lichenised fungi in Dothideomyceta". Studies in Mycology. 64: 135–144. doi:10.3114/sim.2009.64.07. PMC 2816970. PMID 20169027.
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