Families of Diaporthales based on morphological and phylogenetic evidence

Stud Mycol. 2017 Mar:86:217-296. doi: 10.1016/j.simyco.2017.07.003. Epub 2017 Aug 1.

Abstract

Diaporthales is an important ascomycetous order comprising phytopathogenic, saprobic, and endophytic fungi, but interfamilial taxonomic relationships are still ambiguous. Despite its cosmopolitan distribution and high diversity with distinctive morphologies, this order has received relativelyiaceae, Macrohilaceae, Melanconidaceae, Pseudoplagiostomaceae, Schizoparmaceae, Stilbosporaceae and Sydowiellaceae. Taxonomic uncertainties among genera are also clarified and recurrent discrepancies in the taxonomic position of families within the Diaporthales are discussed. An updated outline and key to families and genera of the order is presented.

Keywords: & K.D. Hyde; Apiosporopsidaceae Senan. Maharachch. & K.D. Hyde; Apoharknessiaceae Senan. Maharachch. & K.D. Hyde; Asterosporiaceae Senan. Maharachch. & K.D. Hyde; Auratiopycnidiellaceae Senan. Maharachch. & K.D. Hyde; Camporesi; Camporesi & K.D. Hyde; Chiangraiomyces Senan. & K.D. Hyde; Chiangraiomyces bauhiniae Senan. & K.D. Hyde; Coniella pseudokoreana Senan., Tangthir. & K.D. Hyde; Coryneum arausiaca (Fabre) Senan., Maharachch. & K.D. Hyde; Cytospora centrivillosa Senan., Camporesi & K.D. Hyde; Cytospora fraxinigena Senan., Camporesi & K.D. Hyde; Cytospora junipericola Senan., Camporesi & K.D. Hyde; Cytospora quercicola Senan., Camporesi & K.D. Hyde; Cytospora rosae Senan., Camporesi & K.D. Hyde; Diaporthe litoricola Senan., E.B.G. Jones & K.D. Hyde; Ditopella biseptata R.H. Perera, Senan., Camporesi & K.D. Hyde; Erythrogloeaceae Senan. Maharachch. & K.D. Hyde; Gnomoniopsis agrimoniae Senan., Camporesi & K.D. Hyde; Hyaliappendispora Senan.; Hyaliappendispora galii Senan., Camporesi & K.D. Hyde; Marsupiomyces Senan. & K.D. Hyde; Marsupiomyces epidermoidea R.H. Perera, Senan., Bulgakov & K.D. Hyde; Marsupiomyces quercina Senan., Camporesi & K.D. Hyde; Melanconiellaceae Senan. Maharachch. & K.D. Hyde; Melanconis italica Senan., Camporesi & K.D. Hyde; Microascospora Senan.; Microascospora fragariae (F. Stevens & Peterson) Senan., Maharachch. & K.D. Hyde; Microascospora rubi Senan., Camporesi & K.D. Hyde; Multi-gene DNA phylogeny; New taxonomic arrangement; Paradiaporthe Senan.; Paradiaporthe artemisiae Senan., Camporesi & K.D. Hyde; Phaeoappendicospora Senan., Q.R. Li & K.D. Hyde; Phaeoappendicospora thailandensis Senan., Q.R. Li & K.D. Hyde; Phytopathogenic fungi; Plagiostoma jonesii Senan., & K.D. Hyde; Plagiostoma salicicola Senan., Camporesi & K.D. Hyde; Prosopidicolaceae Senan. & K.D. Hyde; Sordariomycetes; Sydowiella urticicola Senan., Camporesi & K.D. Hyde; Systematics; Tubakia thailandensis Senan., Tangthir., K.D. Hyde.