Trichosphaeriaceae

Trichosphaeria notabilis on Clematis vitalba, from Mycologues Associes.

Belongs within: Sordariomycetes.

The Trichosphaeriaceae are a family of saprobic fungi most commonly found on wood and bark (Cannon & Kirk 2007).

Characters (from Cannon & Kirk 2007): Stromata absent, or reduced to a hyphal subiculum. Ascomata perithecial, superficial, often aggregated, ± globose, black, often thick-walled, usually setose, the ostiole papillate, periphysate; peridium composed of thick-walled angular cells, sometimes larger and more strongly pigmented towards the apex. Interascal tissue of narrow, persistent, thin-walled, true paraphyses formed from a basal meristem. Asci cylindrical, persistent, thin-walled, not fissitunicate, usually with a small J- apical ring. Ascospores variously shaped, hyaline to versicoloured, usually septate and rarely muriform, sometimes fragmenting at the septa, without germ pores, sometimes with a sheath. Anamorphs varied, hyphomycetous, with simple pigmented conidiophores and often with complex conidia.

Trichosphaeriaceae [Trichosphaeriales]
    |--Acanthosphaeria EB03
    |--Collematospora EB03
    |--Coniobrevicolla larsenii EB03, E99
    |--Crassochaeta EB03
    |--Cresporhaphis EB03
    |--Eriosphaeria EB03
    |--Fluviostroma EB03
    |--Kananascus EB03
    |--Miyoshiella EB03
    |--Rhynchomeliola EB03
    |--Rizalia EB03
    |--Schweinitziella EB03
    |--Setocampanula EB03
    |--Trichosphaeria EB03
    |--Umbrinosphaeria EB03
    `--Neorehmia von Höhnel 1902 EB03, RS99 [incl. Larseniella Munk 1942 RS99]
         |--*N. ceratophora von Höhnel 1902 (see below for synonymy) RS99
         `--N. arecae [=Oplothecium arecae, Trichosphaerella arecae] RS99

*Neorehmia ceratophora von Höhnel 1902 [=Trichosphaerella ceratophora (von Höhnel) Müller in Müller & von Arx 1962; incl. *Larseniella globulispora Munk 1942] RS99

*Type species of generic name indicated

REFERENCES

Cannon, P. F., & P. M. Kirk. 2007. Fungal Families of the World. CABI.

[E99] Eriksson, O. E. (ed.) 1999. Notes on ascomycete systematics. Nos 2440-2755. Myconet 2: 1-41.

[EB03] Eriksson, O. E., H. O. Barah, R. S. Currah, K. Hansen, C. P. Kurtzman, G. Rambold & T. Laessøe (eds.) 2003. Outline of Ascomycota—2003. Myconet 9: 1-89.

[RS99] Rossman, A. Y., G. J. Samuels, C. T. Rogerson & R. Lowen. 1999. Genera of Bionectriaceae, Hypocreaceae and Nectriaceae (Hypocreales, Ascomycetes). Studies in Mycology 42: 1-248.