Magnaporthaceae

Belongs within: Magnaporthales.

The Magnaporthaceae are a group of fungi usually necrotrophic on the roots of grasses (Kirk et al. 2001).

Characters (Kirk et al. 2001): Stromata absent. Ascomata perithecial, black, immersed in plant tissues, usually with long hairy necks. Interascal tissue of thin-walled tapering paraphyses. Asci more or less cylindrical, persistent, fairly thick-walled, without separable layers, with large apical pore surrounded by often J+ apical ring. Ascospores septate, often filiform, often with middle cells pigmented, without germ pores, without sheath. Anamorphs varied, hyphomycetous, usually with pigmented conidiogenous cells. Sclerotia sometimes formed, appressoria usually present.

Magnaporthaceae
    |--+--Bussabanomyces longisporusHM17
    |  `--Buergenerula Syd. 1936HM17, KC01 [incl. Yukonia Sprague 1962KC01]
    |       `--B. spartinaeHM17
    `--+--Slopeiomyces cylindrosporusHM17
       `--Magnaporthe Krause & Webster 1972HM17, KC01
            |--M. griseaMC03 [incl. Pyricularia griseaZB01]
            `--M. salviniiZB01

Magnaporthaceae incertae sedis:
  Clasterosporium Schwein. 1832ZB01, KC01 (see below for synonymy)
  Clasterosphaeria Sivan. 1984KC01
  Clavatisporella Hyde 1995EB03, KC01
  Herbampulla Scheuer & Nograsek 1993KC01
  Omnidemptus Cannon & Alcorn 1994 [incl. Leptodiscus Gerd. 1953 non Hertwig 1877, Mycoleptodiscus Ostaz. 1968]KC01
    `--‘Mycoleptodiscus’ indicusKC01
  Gaeumannomyces Arx & Olivier 1952KC01 (see below for synonymy)
    |--G. graminisMC03
    |    |--G. g. var. graminisK15
    |    `--G. g. var. triticiK15
    `--G. medullarisSS09

Clasterosporium Schwein. 1832^{ZB01, KC01} [=Cometella Schwein. 1835^KC01; incl. Apotemnoum Corda 1833^KC01, Brachydesmium (Sacc.) Costantin 1888^KC01, Cheiropodium Syd. & Syd. 1915^KC01, Hymenopodium Corda 1837^KC01, Phanerocoryneum Höhn. 1923^KC01, Sporhelminthium Speg. 1918^KC01]

Gaeumannomyces Arx & Olivier 1952^KC01 [incl. Harpophora^MC03, Rhaphidophora Ces. & De Not. 1863 non Hassk. 1842^KC01, Rhaphidospora Fr. 1849 non Nees 1832^KC01]

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[EB03] Eriksson, O. E., H. O. Barah, R. S. Currah, K. Hansen, C. P. Kurtzman, G. Rambold & T. Laessøe (eds.) 2003. Outline of Ascomycota—2003. Myconet 9: 1–89.

[HM17] Hongsanan, S., S. S. N. Maharachchikumbura, K. D. Hyde, M. C. Samarakoon, R. Jeewon, Q. Zhao, A. M. Al-Sadi & A. H. Bahkali. 2017. An updated phylogeny of Sordariomycetes based on phylogenetic and molecular clock evidence. Fungal Diversity 84: 25–41.

[K15] Kellogg, E. A. 2015. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants vol. 13. Flowering Plants: Monocots: Poaceae. Springer.

[KC01] Kirk, P. M., P. F. Cannon, J. C. David & J. A. Stalpers. 2001. Ainsworth & Bisby’s Dictionary of the Fungi 9^th ed. CAB International: Wallingford (UK).

[MC03] Mostert, L., P. W. Crous, J. Z. Groenewald, W. Gams & R. C. Summerbell. 2003. Togninia (Calosphaeriales) is confirmed as teleomorph of Phaeoacremonium by means of morphology, sexual compatibility and DNA phylogeny. Mycologia 95 (4): 646–659.

[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.

[ZB01] Zhang, N., & M. Blackwell. 2001. Molecular phylogeny of dogwood anthracnose fungus (Discula destructiva) and the Diaporthales. Mycologia 93 (2): 355–365.