The Chaetosphaeriaceae are a family of fungi in the Ascomycota, class Sordariomycetes.[1] The family was circumscribed by Martina Réblová, Margaret Elizabeth Barr Bigelow, and Gary Samuels in 1999.[2] Species in the family have a cosmopolitan distribution, and are found in both temperate and tropical climates.[3] Fossils of the Chaetosphaeriaceae are known from the Carboniferous, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene and more recent sediments.[4]

Chaetosphaeriaceae
Catenularia cubensis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Sordariomycetes
Order: Chaetosphaeriales
Family: Chaetosphaeriaceae
Réblová, M.E.Barr & Samuels (1999)
Type genus
Chaetosphaeria
Tul. & C.Tul. (1863)

Genera

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As accepted by GBIF;[5]

Figures in brackets are approx. how many species per genus.[5]

Former genera Australiasca now within Australiascaceae family and Porosphaerella now within Cordanaceae family.

References

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  1. ^ Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet. 13. Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany: 1–58. Archived from the original on 2009-03-18.
  2. ^ Réblová M, Barr ME, Samuels GJ (1999). "Chaetosphaeriaceae, a new family for Chaetosphaeria and its relatives". Sydowia. 51: 49–70.
  3. ^ Cannon PF, Kirk PM (2007). Fungal Families of the World. Wallingford, UK: CAB International. pp. 65–66. ISBN 978-0-85199-827-5.
  4. ^ Pound, Matthew J.; O’Keefe, Jennifer M. K.; Nuñez Otaño, Noelia B.; Riding, James B. (5 December 2018). "Three new Miocene fungal palynomorphs from the Brassington Formation, Derbyshire, UK" (PDF). Palynology. 43 (4): 596–607. doi:10.1080/01916122.2018.1473300. S2CID 134737967.
  5. ^ a b "Chaetosphaeriaceae". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 7 August 2022.