Pleosporaceae

Pleosporaceae
Cochliobolus sativus
Cochliobolus sativus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Dothideomycetes
Order: Pleosporales
Family: Pleosporaceae
Nitschke (1869)[1]
Synonyms

Pyrenophoraceae

Pleosporaceae is a family of sac fungi. They are pathogenic to humans or saprobic on woody and dead herbaceous stems or leaves.[2]

They are generally anamorphic species (having an asexual reproductive stage).[3] The type species is Stemphylium botryosum Wallr.[2]

They have a cosmopolitan distribution worldwide.[4]

  1. ^ Nitschke, Verh. naturh. Ver. preuss. Rheinl. 26: 74 (1869).
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