The Apiosporaceae are a

family Family (from la, familia) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). The purpose of the family is to maintain the well-being of its ...

fungi A fungus ( : fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. These organisms are classified as a kingdom, separately from ...

in the

Ascomycota Ascomycota is a phylum of the kingdom Fungi that, together with the Basidiomycota, forms the subkingdom Dikarya. Its members are commonly known as the sac fungi or ascomycetes. It is the largest phylum of Fungi, with over 64,000 species. The def ...

. It was placed in the order Amphisphaeriales in 2020. The family was

circumscribed In geometry, the circumscribed circle or circumcircle of a polygon is a circle that passes through all the vertices of the polygon. The center of this circle is called the circumcenter and its radius is called the circumradius. Not every polyg ...

in 1998. Species in the family are

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 (f ...

, and derive nutrients by decomposing and digesting plant matter, especially palms and

grasses Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns and ...

Anamorph In mycology, the terms teleomorph, anamorph, and holomorph apply to portions of the life cycles of fungi in the phyla Ascomycota and Basidiomycota: *Teleomorph: the sexual reproductive stage (morph), typically a fruiting body. *Anamorph: an ase ...

genera include ''

Arthrinium ''Arthrinium'' is a genus of minute disease-causing fungi which belong to the family Apiosporaceae and which are parasitic on flowering plants such as sedges. These fungi have an anamorphic life cycle stage where spores are produced asexually ...

'' and ''Cordella''.

Genera

As accepted by

Species Fungorum ''Index Fungorum'' is an international project to index all formal names (scientific names) in the fungus kingdom. the project is based at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, one of three partners along with Landcare Research and the Institute of Mi ...

and Outline of Fungi 2020 (with amount of genera); *'' Apiospora'' (102) *'' Appendicospora'' (2) *''

'' (73) *'' Cordella'' (6) *'' Dictyoarthrinium'' (6) *''

Nigrospora ''Nigrospora'' is a genus of fungi belonging to the family Trichosphaeriaceae. The genus has cosmopolitan distribution. Fossils have been found in 12 million year old rocks from central England. Species *'' Nigrospora aerophila'' Bat. & Siqu ...

'' (25) *'' Papularia'' (5) *'' Phaeoharziella'' (1) *'' Pseudobasidium'' (1) *'' Rhinocephalum'' (1) *''

Spegazzinia :''Spegazzinia is also a synonym of the cactus genus ''Rebutia''. ''Spegazzinia'' is a genus of mitosporic Ascomycota in the Apiosporaceae family. The widely distributed genus contains seven species. This genus is somewhat related to other lobed ...

'' (17)

References

External links

* Sordariomycetes Amphisphaeriales Ascomycota families {{Sordariomycetes-stub zh:暗色孢科