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Dothideomycetes

 
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Dothideomycetes
The reproductive conidia of Venturia inaequalis erupting through the cuticle of a crabapple leaf
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Subdivision: Pezizomycotina
Class: Dothideomycetes
Subclasses & Orders

Dothideomycetidae

Capnodiales
Dothideales
Myriangiales

Pleosporomycetidae

Pleosporales
Mytilinidiaceae

Incertae sedis

Botryosphaeriales
Hysteriales
Jahnulales
Patellariales
Trypetheliaceae
Tubeufiaceae

Dothideomycetes is a class of ascomycete fungi. It comprises about 50 families, 650 genera and 6300 known species. Traditionally most of its members were included in the clade Loculoascomycetes. The class contains several important plant pathogens (like Phaeosphaeria nodorum and Venturia inaequalis).

Contents

Families incertae sedis

The following families have an uncertain taxonomic placement in the Dothideomycetes.[1]

AcrospermaceaeArgynnaceaeArthopyreniaceaeAscoporiaceaeAsterinaceaeAulographaceaeCoccoideaceaeCookellaceaeCorynesporascaceaeCorynesporascaceaeEnglerulaceaeEremomycetaceaeEuantennariaceaeFenestellaceaeHypsostromataceaeLeptopeltidaceaeLichenotheliaceaeMeliolinaceaeMesnieraceaeMicropeltidaceaeMicrotheliopsidaceaeMicrothyriaceaeMoriolaceaeMycoporaceaeNaetrocymbaceaeParmulariaceaeParodiellaceaeParodiellaceaePlanistromellaceaePolystomellaceaePolystomellaceaePseudoperisporiaceae — Pyrenotrichaceae — SchizothyriaceaeTrypetheliaceaeTubeufiaceaeVizellaceae

See also

References

  1. ^ Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet (The Field Museum, Department of Botany, Chicago, USA) 13: 1–58. http://www.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp. 

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