Sporormiaceae

Belongs within: Pleosporales.

The Sporormiales are a group of microfungi with black ascomata and no stroma (Kirk et al. 2001).

Characters (Kirk et al. 2001): Stromata absent. Ascomata perithecial, black, thick-walled, sometimes hairy, with well-developed lysigenous ostiole that is sometimes periphysate. Interascal tissue copious, of cellular pseudoparaphyses. Asci cylindrical, fissitunicate, sometimes with complex apical structures. Ascospores usually dark brown, strongly constricted and fragmenting at septa, usually with germ slits in each cell, occasionally ornamented, sometimes with a sheath.

<==Sporormiaceae
    |  i. s.: Sporormia De Not. 1845 [incl. Brochospora Kirschst. 1944, Pleophragmia Fuckel 1870]KC01
    |           `--S. lignicolaLS01
    |         Chaetopreussia Locq.-Lin. 1977KC01
    |         Pycnidiophora Clum 1956 [incl. Preussiella Lodha 1978 non Gilg 1897]KC01
    |         Spororminula Arx & Aa 1987KC01
    |--Preussia Fuckel 1867SS09, KC01 [incl. Fleischhakia Auersw. 1869KC01, Honoratia Cif., Vegni & Montemart 1963KC01]
    |    `--P. terricolaSS09
    `--+--Sporormiella Ellis & Everh. 1892SS09, KC01 [incl. Niesslella Speg. 1880KC01, Sporormiopsis Breton & Faurel 1964KC01]
       |    |--S. intermediaSS09
       |    `--S. minimaLH04
       `--Westerdykella Stolk 1955SS09, KC01
            |--W. cylindricaJK06
            |--W. dispersaIL01
            `--W. minutispora [=Phoma minutispora]V-LC-L18

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[IL01] Inderbitzin, P., S. Landvik, M. A. Abdel-Wahab & M. L. Berbee. 2001. Aliquandostipitaceae, a new family for two new tropical ascomycetes with unusually wide hyphae and dimorphic ascomata. American Journal of Botany 88 (1): 52–61.

[JK06] James, T. Y., F. Kauff, C. L. Schoch, P. B. Matheny, V. Hofstetter, C. J. Cox, G. Celio, C. Gueidan, E. Fraker, J. Miadlikowska, H. T. Lumbsch, A. Rauhut, V. Reeb, A. E. Arnold, A. Amtoft, J. E. Stajich, K. Hosaka, G.-H. Sung, D. Johnson, B. O’Rourke, M. Crockett, M. Binder, J. M. Curtis, J. C. Slot, Z. Wang, A. W. Wilson, A. Schüßler, J. E. Longcore, K. O’Donnell, S. Mozley-Standridge, D. Porter, P. M. Letcher, M. J. Powell, J. W. Taylor, M. M. White, G. W. Griffith, D. R. Davies, R. A. Humber, J. B. Morton, J. Sugiyama, A. Y. Rossman, J. D. Rogers, D. H. Pfister, D. Hewitt, K. Hansen, S. Hambleton, R. A. Shoemaker, J. Kohlmeyer, B. Volkmann-Kohlmeyer, R. A. Spotts, M. Serdani, P. W. Crous, K. W. Hughes, K. Matsuura, E. Langer, G. Langer, W. A. Untereiner, R. Lücking, B. Büdel, D. M. Geiser, A. Aptroot, P. Diederich, I. Schmitt, M. Schultz, R. Yahr, D. S. Hibbett, F. Lutzoni, D. J. McLaughlin, J. W. Spatafora & R. Vilgalys. 2006. Reconstructing the early evolution of Fungi using a six-gene phylogeny. Nature 443: 818–822.

[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).

[LH04] Liu, Y. J. & B. D. Hall. 2004. Body plan evolution of ascomycetes, as inferred from an RNA polymerase II phylogeny. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 101: 4507–4512.

[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.

[V-LC-L18] Valenzuela-Lopez, N., J. F. Cano-Lira, A. M. Stchigel & J. Guarro. 2018. DNA sequencing to clarify the taxonomical conundrum of the clinical coelomycetes. Mycoses 61: 708–717.