Pleosporaceae
Pleosporaceae is a family of sac fungi. They are pathogenic to humans or saprobic on woody and dead herbaceous stems or leaves.
They are generally anamorphic species. The type species is Stemphylium botryosum
They have a cosmopolitan distribution worldwide.
History
The family was created in 1869, based on the immersed ascomata and pseudoparaphyses of some species, and it was assigned to Sphaeriales order. It was then placed in the Pseudosphaeriaceae family by Theissen & Sydow and then later raised to ordinal rank as the Pseudosphaeriales. Luttrell assigned Pleosporaceae under the Pleosporales order and treated Pseudosphaeriales as a synonym of Pleosporales. Later, availability of molecular data, and multi-gene phylogenetic studies confirmed the familial placement of Pleosporaceae with respect to other families in order Pleosporales. Genera Alternaria, Bipolaris and Stemphylium are more common asexual morphs in Pleosporaceae and they are also saprobes or parasites on various hosts. Boonmee et al. transferred Allonecte from family Tubeufiaceae to family Pleosporaceae in 2011. Ariyawansa et al. revised the family and accepted 18 genera into it. According to Wijayawardene et al., 16 genera were accepted in Pleosporaceae based on morphological and molecular data. Pem et al. accepted genus Gibbago in Pleosporaceae based on morphological and molecular data.Genera
As accepted by Wijayawardene et al. 2020;Allonecte Alternaria Nees ex Wallroth, 1816 Bipolaris Shoemaker Chalastospora Clathrospora Cochliobolus Comoclathris Curvularia Decorospora Inderbitzin, Kohlm. & Volkm.-Kohlm, 2002 Diademosa Dichotomophthora Mehrl. & Fitzp. ex M.B.Ellis, 1971 Drechslera Embellisia Exserohilum K.J. Leonard & Suggs Extrawettsteinina M.E. Barr Gibbago Johnalcornia Lewia M.E. Barr & E.G. SimmonsMacrospora Fuckel Macrosporium Malustela Mycoporopsis Paradendryphiella Paraliomyces Platysporoides Shoemaker & C.E. Babc. Pleoseptum Pleospora Rabenh. ex Ces. & De Not., 1863 Porocercospora Pseudoyuconia Lar. N. Vailjeva Prathoda Pseudoyuconia Pyrenophora Fr., 1849 Scleroplea Stemphylium Tamaricicola Teretispora Typhicola ZeuctomorphaFigures in brackets are approx. how many species per genus.