Belongs within: Pleosporales.
The Lophiostomataceae are a family of fungi that are saprobic or necrotrophic on plant stems (Kirk et al. 2001).
Characters (Kirk et al. 2001): Ascomata perithecial, immersed or erumpent, often strongly flattened, often aggregated, black, usually papillate, with a round or slit-like sometimes periphysate lysigenous pore; peridium of small pseudoparenchymatous cells, usually thickened above, sometimes clypeate. Interascal tissue copious, of narrow cellular pseudoparaphyses. Asci more or less widely cylindrical, fissitunicate, with distinct ocular chamber, not blueing in iodine. Ascospores transversely septate, ocasionally muriform, constricted at primary and secondary septa, often with sheath or appendages. Anamorphs poorly known, usually coelomycetous.
<==Lophiostomataceae
|--Byssolophis Clem. 1931KC01
|--Cilioplea Munk 1953KC01
|--Entodesmium Riess 1854KC01
|--Keissleriella Höhn. 1919 (see below for synonymy)KC01
|--Lophiella Sacc. 1878KC01
|--Lophionema Sacc. 1883KC01
|--Lophiotrema Sacc. 1878KC01
|--Massarina Sacc. 1883 (see below for synonymy)KC01
|--Massariosphaeria (Müll.) Crivelli 1983KC01
|--Muroia Hino & Katum. 1958KC01
|--Quintaria Kohlm. & Volkm.-Kohlm. 1991KC01
|--Trichometasphaeria Munk 1953KC01
|--Vaginatispora Hyde 1995KC01
|--Oraniella Speg. 1909KC01
| `--O. coffeicolaE99
`--Lophiostoma Ces. & De Not. 1863 (nom. cons.) (see below for synonymy)KC01
|--L. arundinisSS09
`--L. crenatumLS01
Keissleriella Höhn. 1919 [incl. Chaetopyrena Sacc. 1883 non Pass. 1881, Chaetopyrenis Clem. & Shear 1931, Coenosphaeria Munk 1953, Zopfinula Kirschst. 1939]KC01
Lophiostoma Ces. & De Not. 1863 (nom. cons.) [=Platisphaera Dumort. 1822, Platysphaera Trevis. 1877; incl. Brigantiella (Sacc.) Sacc. 1905, Ceriosporella Berl. 1894, Delacourea Fabre 1879, Lambottiella (Sacc.) Sacc. 1913, Lophidiopsis Berl. 1890, Lophidium Sacc. 1878 nec Rich. 1792 nec Karst. 1873, Lophiosphaera Trevis. 1877, Lophiotricha Richon 1885, Platystoma (Fr.) Bonord. 1851 non Meigen 1803 (ICZN), Platystomum Trevis. 1877, Vivianella (Sacc.) Sacc. 1898]KC01
Massarina Sacc. 1883 [incl. Abaphospora Kirschst. 1939, Acrocalymma Alcorn & Irwin 1987, Bertiella (Sacc.) Sacc. & Syd. 1899, Ceratophoma Höhn. 1917, Epiphegia Otth 1870, Holstiella Henn. 1895, Massarinula Géneau 1894, Parasphaeria Syd. 1924, Phragmosperma Theiss. & Syd. 1917, Pseudodiaporthe Speg. 1909, Tetraploa Berk. & Broome 1850]KC01
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[E99] Eriksson, O. E. (ed.) 1999. Notes on ascomycete systematics. Nos 2440–2755. Myconet 2: 1–41.
[KC01] Kirk, P. M., P. F. Cannon, J. C. David & J. A. Stalpers. 2001. Ainsworth & Bisby’s Dictionary of the Fungi 9th ed. CAB International: Wallingford (UK).
[LS01] Lumbsch, H. T., I. Schmitt, H. Döring & M. Wedin. 2001. Molecular systematics supports the recognition of an additional order of Ascomycota: the Agyriales. Mycological Research 105 (1): 16–23.
[SS09] Schoch, C. L., G.-H. Sung, F. López-Giráldez, J. P. Townsend, J. Miadlikowska, V. Hofstetter, B. Robbertse, P. B. Matheny, F. Kauff, Z. Wang, C. Gueidan, R. M. Andrie, K. Trippe, L. M. Ciufetti, A. Wynns, E. Fraker, B. P. Hodkinson, G. Bonito, J. Z. Groenewald, M. Arzanlou, G. S. de Hoog, P. W. Crous, D. Hewitt, D. H. Pfister, K. Peterson, M. Gryzenhout, M. J. Wingfield, A. Aptroot, S.-O. Suh, M. Blackwell, D. M. Hillis, G. W. Griffith, L. A. Castlebury, A. Y. Rossman, H. T. Lumbsch, R. Lücking, B. Büdel, A. Rauhut, P. Diederich, D. Ertz, D. M. Geiser, K. Hosaka, P. Inderbitzin, J. Kohlmeyer, B. Volkmann-Kohlmeyer, L. Mostert, K. O’Donnell, H. Sipman, J. D. Rogers, R. A. Shoemaker, J. Sugiyama, R. C. Summerbell, W. Untereiner, P. R. Johnston, S. Stenroos, A. Zuccaro, P. S. Dyer, P. D. Crittenden, M. S. Cole, K. Hansen, J. M. Trappe, R. Yahr, F. Lutzoni & J. W. Spatafora. 2009. The Ascomycota tree of life: a phylum-wide phylogeny clarifies the origin and evolution of fundamental reproductive and ecological traits. Systematic Biology 58 (2): 224–239.