Chaetosphaeriaceae Explained

The Chaetosphaeriaceae are a family of fungi in the Ascomycota, class Sordariomycetes.^[1] The family was circumscribed by Martina Réblová, Margaret Elizabeth Barr Bigelow, and Gary Samuels in 1999.^[2] Species in the family have a cosmopolitan distribution, and are found in both temperate and tropical climates.^[3] Fossils of the Chaetosphaeriaceae are known from the Carboniferous, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene and more recent sediments.^[4]

Genera

As accepted by GBIF;^[5]

• Adautomilanezia (2)
• Anaexserticlava (1)
• Aposphaeriella (1)
• Ascochalara (1)
• Calvolachnella (2)
• Catenularia (16)
• Chaetolentomita (1)
• Chaetosphaeria (184)
• Chloridium (45)
• Cirrhomyces (1)
• Codinaea (21)
• Conicomyces (5)
• Craspedodidymum (14)
• Cylindrotrichum (28)
• Dendrophoma (9)
• Dictyochaeta (87)
• Dictyochaetopsis (13)
• Didymopsamma (1)
• Eucalyptostroma (4)
• Fuscocatenula (2)
• Gonytrichum (4)
• Hemicorynespora (13)
• Infundibulomyces (6)
• Kylindria (13)
• Lecythothecium (1)
• Lentomita (11)
• Melanochaeta (4)
• Melanopsammina (1)
• Menispora (24)
• Menisporopascus (1)
• Menisporopsis (14)
• Mesobotrys (1)
• Miyoshiella (2)
• Montemartinia (1)
• Morrisiella (1)
• Nawawia (8)
• Neopseudolachnella (5)
• Paliphora (8)
• Paragaeumannomyces (14)
• Phaeostalagmus (8)
• Phialogeniculata (4)
• Phialolunulospora (1)
• Pseudodinemasporium (2)
• Pseudolachnea (8)
• Pseudolachnella (26)
• Pyrigemmula (4)
• Sporoschisma (28)
• Stanjehughesia (17)
• Striatosphaeria (3)
• Tainosphaeria (9)
• Thozetella (40)
• Thozetellopsis (1)
• Trichocollonema (1)
• Uncigera (1)
• Verhulstia (1)
• Zanclospora (11)
• Zignoella (79)

Figures in brackets are approx. how many species per genus.^[5]

Former genera Australiasca now within Australiascaceae family and Porosphaerella now within Cordanaceae family.

Notes and References

1. Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM . December 2007 . Outline of Ascomycota – 2007 . Myconet . 13 . 1–58 . The Field Museum, Department of Botany . Chicago, USA . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090318003134/http://www.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp . 2009-03-18 .
2. Réblová M, Barr ME, Samuels GJ . 1999 . Chaetosphaeriaceae, a new family for Chaetosphaeria and its relatives . Sydowia . 51 . 49–70.
3. Book: Cannon PF, Kirk PM . Fungal Families of the World . CAB International . Wallingford, UK . 2007 . 65–66 . 978-0-85199-827-5.
4. Pound . Matthew J. . O’Keefe . Jennifer M. K. . Nuñez Otaño . Noelia B. . Riding . James B. . Three new Miocene fungal palynomorphs from the Brassington Formation, Derbyshire, UK . Palynology . 5 December 2018 . 43 . 4 . 596–607 . 10.1080/01916122.2018.1473300 . 134737967 .
5. Web site: Chaetosphaeriaceae . www.gbif.org . 7 August 2022 . en.