The Phaeotrichaceae are a family of fungi previously considered to be in the

order Order, ORDER or Orders may refer to: * Categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood * Heterarchy, a system of organization wherein the elements have the potential to be ranked a number of d ...

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 ...

, but now excluded. Taxa have a widespread distribution and are saprobic, on

herbivore A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage or marine algae, for the main component of its diet. As a result of their plant diet, herbivorous animals typically have mouthpart ...

dung.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q7180134 Dothideomycetes families Dothideomycetes Taxa described in 1956