The Massarinaceae are a
family
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of
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
order 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 ...
. Although taxa have a cosmopolitan distribution, they are better-known in
temperate
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regions. They are thought to be
saprobic
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in wood and bark; some species are weak pathogens.
In 2013, Quaedvlieg and colleagues expanded this family with the genus ''
Stagonospora
''Stagonospora'' is a genus of fungi clustering in the Phaeosphaeriaceae (Quaedvlieg). Several of the species in this genus are plant pathogens.
Taxonomy
Previously included species include ''S. curtisii''= ''Peyronellaea curtisii
''Pey ...
'' by showing that the
type of the genus (''Stagonospora paludosa'') actually clustered inside the Massarinaceae and not in the
Phaeosphaeriaceae
The Phaeosphaeriaceae are a family of fungi in the order Pleosporales. Species in the family have a cosmopolitan distribution, and are generally nectrotrophic or saprobic on a wide range of plants.
Genera list
*'' Barria''
*'' Bricookea''
*' ...
as was previously assumed. Subsequently, ''Stagonospora'', which has several important pathogens on grasses (e.g. ''Stagonospora nodorum'' and ''S. avenae''), was renamed ''Parastagonospora''.
Genera
*''
Bertiella''
*''
Byssothecium''
*''
Epiphegia''
*''
Helminthosporiella''
*''
Helminthosporium
''Helminthosporium'' is a genus of fungi belonging to the family Massarinaceae.
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 ...
''
*''
Massarina''
*''
Massarinula''
*''
Phragmocamarosporium''
*''
Phragmosperma''
*''
Pseudodiaporthe''
*''
Pseudodidymosphaeria''
*''
Vaginatispora''
References
Dothideomycetes families
Pleosporales
Taxa described in 1956
Taxa named by Anders Munk
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