''Jobellisia'' is a genus of fungi within the family Jobiellaceae, class Sordariomycetes. The genus was

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in 1993 with '' J. luteola'' as the type species. It contains species that grow on dead wood and bark in tropical and temperate regions of the

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. Barr originally

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''Jobellisia'' in the family

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of the order Xylariales. Later phylogenetic work showed that ''J. luteola'' and '' J. fraterna'' formed a

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that is sister to the

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Diaporthales. In 2008, Martina Réblová erected a new genus, '' Bellojisia'' (an

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of ''Jobellisia''), to contain what was then called ''Jobellisia rhynchostoma'', and created the family Jobiellaceae for the remaining ''Jobellisia'' species. She demonstrated that Jobiellaceae occupies a

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position in a clade containing the

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and Diaporthales.

References

Sordariomycetes genera Sordariomycetes enigmatic taxa {{Sordariomycetes-stub