family
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Pleosporales
The Pleosporales is the largest order in the fungal class Dothideomycetes. By a 2008 estimate it contains 23 families, 332 genera and more than 4700 species. The majority of species are saprobes on decaying plant material in fresh water, marin ...
.Dyntaxa Swedish Taxonomic Database: Didymellaceae /ref> The have a world-wide distribution.
Recent phylogenetic examination of some of the larger genera of the Pleosporales, particularly ''
Phoma
''Phoma'' is a genus of common coelomycetous soil fungi. It contains many plant pathogenic species.
Description
Spores are colorless and unicellular. The pycnidia are black and depressed in the tissues of the host. ''Phoma'' is arbitrarily lim ...
'', has led to considerable reorganisation of the order, many of the species being placed in this family.
It was originally made with ''Atradidymella'', ''Boeremia'', ''Chaetopyrena'', ''Didymella'', ''Endophoma'', ''Leptosphaerulina'', ''Macroventuria'', ''Peyronellaea'', ''Phoma'', ''Platychora'' and ''Stagonosporopsis''.
''Atradidymella'' is now placed within
Pleosporales
The Pleosporales is the largest order in the fungal class Dothideomycetes. By a 2008 estimate it contains 23 families, 332 genera and more than 4700 species. The majority of species are saprobes on decaying plant material in fresh water, marin ...
order, and ''Endophoma'' (is unplaced).
Taxonomy
Genera as accepted by
GBIF
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Ascochyta
''Ascochyta'' is a genus of ascomycete fungi, containing several species that are pathogenic to plants, particularly cereal crops. The taxonomy of this genus is still incomplete. The genus was first described in 1830 by Marie-Anne Libert, w ...
Boeremia
''Boeremia'' is a genus of fungi belonging to the family Didymellaceae
The Didymellaceae are a family of fungi in the order Pleosporales. The have a world-wide distribution.
Recent phylogenetic examination of some of the larger genera of the ...
Chaetopyrena
''Chaetopyrena'' is a genus of fungi belonging to the family Didymellaceae
The Didymellaceae are a family of fungi in the order Pleosporales. The have a world-wide distribution.
Recent phylogenetic examination of some of the larger genera of ...
Didymella
''Didymella'' is a genus of fungi belonging to the family Didymellaceae.
The genus has cosmopolitan distribution
In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution is the term for the range of a taxon that extends across all or most of the world i ...
Epicoccum
''Epicoccum'' is a genus of fungi belonging to the family Didymellaceae
The Didymellaceae are a family of fungi in the order Pleosporales. The have a world-wide distribution.
Recent phylogenetic examination of some of the larger genera of the ...
Peyronellaea
''Peyronellaea'' is a genus of fungi in the family Didymellaceae. It contains a number of plant pathogens.
The genus name of ''Peyronellaea'' is in honour of Beniamino Peyronel (1890-1975), who was an Italian botanist (Mycology and Lichenology ...
Phoma
''Phoma'' is a genus of common coelomycetous soil fungi. It contains many plant pathogenic species.
Description
Spores are colorless and unicellular. The pycnidia are black and depressed in the tissues of the host. ''Phoma'' is arbitrarily lim ...