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Helminthosphaeriaceae
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Sordariomycetes
Order:	Chaetosphaeriales
Family:	Helminthosphaeriaceae Samuels, Cand. & Magni (1997)
Type genus
Helminthosphaeria Fuckel (1870)

The Helminthosphaeriaceae are a family of fungi in the class Sordariomycetes. Species in this family are saprobic, often growing on rotten wood or on the fruit bodies of old mushrooms. They are distributed in temperate areas.

Genera

As accepted by Wijayawardene et al. 2020 (with amount of species per genus);

• Echinosphaeria A.N. Mill. & Huhndorf (14)
• Helminthosphaeria Fuckel (ca. 20)
• Hilberina Huhndorf & A.N. Mill. (ca. 20)
• Ruzenia O. Hilber (1)

References

1. Samuels GJ, Candoussau F, Magni JF (1997). "Fungicolous pyrenomycetes 1. Helminthosphaeria and the new family Helminthosphaeriaceae". Mycologia. 89 (1): 141–55. doi:10.2307/3761183. JSTOR 3761183.
2. Cannon PF, Kirk PM (2007). Fungal Families of the World. Wallingford, UK: CAB International. pp. 154–5. ISBN 978-0-85199-827-5.
3. Wijayawardene, Nalin; Hyde, Kevin; Al-Ani, Laith Khalil Tawfeeq; Somayeh, Dolatabadi; Stadler, Marc; Haelewaters, Danny; et al. (2020). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa". Mycosphere. 11: 1060–1456. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/11/1/8. hdl:10481/61998.

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