| Teratosphaeriaceae | |
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| Baudoinia compniacensis growing on Blair Athol distillery, feeding on the angel's share | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Dothideomycetes |
| Order: | Capnodiales |
| Family: | Teratosphaeriaceae |
Teratosphaeriaceae is a family of fungi in the order Mycosphaerellales. [1]
In 2007, this family was recognized as distinct from the genus Mycosphaerella , where it had previously been located, based on phylogenies constructed with the Large Subunit (LSU) of ribosomal DNA. [2] In general, many fungi in the Mycosphaerellaceae and Teratosphaeriaceae are thought to be widespread, yet there is still little known about their individual distributions or the range of hosts that they inhabit. [3] After the family was formally split out from Mycosphaerella in 2007, [2] many new species have been described in this family including a number of causal agents in leaf diseases and stem cankers of Eucalyptus in Uruguay [3] [4] and Australia. [5] [6]
As accepted by Wijayawardene et al. 2020 (with amount of species); [1]
This family of fungi is notable in that it contains a number of extremeotolerant, so-called black yeast fungi. [2] A number of these black yeast fungi in the Teratosphaeriaceae are considered 'rock-inhabiting', and manage to survive on the often-harsh exposed surfaces of rocks [8] in a range of extreme climates, including in Antarctica. [9] While some of the members of this family live in harsh environments, including the newly described genus Acidiella that grows in highly acidic soils (pH < 3) in Europe, [10] other closely related species are found as lichens or on plant surfaces. [11] This family, for example, contains a number of previously recognized leaf spot pathogens and endophytes. [12] [13] Sequences from the plant pathogen Teratosphaeria microspora were even found in a high-throughput screen of fungal spores in indoor dust. [14]