Sporormiaceae

Sporormiaceae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Dothideomycetes
Order:	Pleosporales
Family:	Sporormiaceae Munk (1957)
Type genus
Sporormia Munk (1957)
Genera
See text

The Sporormiaceae are a family of fungi in the order Pleosporales. Taxa have a cosmopolitan distribution and are saprobic on dung (coprophilous) and rotting vegetation. ^[1]

Description

The Sporormiaceae are characterized by having dark brown, septate spores with germ slits. ^[2]

Genera

As accepted by GBIF; ^[3]

• Anekabeeja Udaiyan & V.S.Hosagoudar, 1992
• Chaetopreussia M.Locquin-Linard, 1977 (2)
• Forliomyces Phukhams., Camporesi & K.D.Hyde, 2016 (2)
• Niesslella
• Pleophragmia Fuckel (4)
• Preussia Fuckel, 1867 (138)
• Preussiella Lodha
• Pycnidiophora
• Sparticola Phukhams., Ariyaw., Camporesi & K.D.Hyde, 2016 (7)
• Sporormia De Not., 1845 (37)
• Sporormiella Ellis & Everh., 1892 (79)
• Spororminula Aa, 1987
• Sporormurispora Wanas., Bulgakov, Gafforov & K.D.Hyde, 2018 (5)
• Westerdykella Stolk (34)

Figures in brackets are approx. how many species per genus. ^[3]

References

1. Cannon PF, Kirk PM (2007). Fungal Families of the World. Wallingford, UK: CAB International. ISBN   978-0-85199-827-5.
2. Kruys A, Eriksson OE, Wedin M (2005). "Phylogenetic relationships of coprophilous Pleosporales (Dothideomycetes, Ascomycota), and the classification of some bitunicate taxa of unknown position". Mycological Research. 110 (5): 527–536. doi:10.1016/j.mycres.2006.03.002. PMID   16769507.
3. "Sporormiaceae". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 1 August 2022.