Chaconiaceae

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Chaconiaceae
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Cytological structures of Botryorhiza hippocrateae
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Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Pucciniomycetes
Order: Pucciniales
Family: Chaconiaceae
Cummins & Y.Hirats. (1983)
Type genus
Chaconia
Juel (1897)

The Chaconiaceae are a family of rust fungi in the order Pucciniales. The family contained 8 genera and 75 species in 2008. [1] By 2020, there were 8 genera and 84 species. [2]

Contents

Most species have a tropical distribution. Maravalia cryptostegiae has been used with success as a biocontrol agent against rubber vine in Australia. [3]

Genera

As accepted by Wijayawardene et al. 2020; [2]

  1. Ceraceopsora Kakish., T. Sato & S. Sato (1)
  2. Chaconia Juel (12)
  3. Goplana Racib. (13)
  4. Maravalia Arthur (41)
  5. Olivea Arthur (8)
  6. Telomapea G.F. Laundon (1)

Note: the genera Achrotelium Syd. and Botryorhiza Whetzel & Olive are now placed in the Zaghouaniaceae. [4]

References

  1. ↑ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p.  129. ISBN   978-0-85199-826-8.
  2. 1 2 Wijayawardene, Nalin; Hyde, Kevin; Al-Ani, Laith Khalil Tawfeeq; Somayeh, Dolatabadi; Stadler, Marc; Haelewaters, Danny; et al. (2020). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa". Mycosphere. 11: 1060–1456. doi: 10.5943/mycosphere/11/1/8 . hdl: 11336/151990 .
  3. ↑ Cannon PF, Kirk PM (2007). Fungal families of the world. Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 62. ISBN   978-0-85199-827-5.
  4. ↑ Aime, M. C.; McTaggart, A. R. (2021). "A higher-rank classification for rust fungi, with notes on genera". Fungal Systematics and Evolution. 7: 21–47. doi:10.3114/fuse.2021.07.02. PMC   8165960 . PMID   34124616.


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