Pseudeurotiaceae

The Pseudeurotiaceae are a family of fungi in the division Ascomycota.[1] This family can not yet be taxonomically classified in any of the ascomycetous classes and orders with any degree of certainty (incertae sedis).[2]

Pseudeurotiaceae
A) Greater mouse-eared bat ("Myotis myotis") with white fungal growth. B) Scanning electron micrograph of a bat hair colonized by "Pseudogymnoascus destructans". Scale bar=10 μm
A) Greater mouse-eared bat (Myotis myotis) with white fungal growth. B) Scanning electron micrograph of a bat hair colonized by Pseudogymnoascus destructans. Scale bar=10 μm
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Ascomycota
Class:
Incertae sedis
Order:
Incertae sedis
Family:
Pseudeurotiaceae

Malloch & Cain (1970)
Type genus
Pseudeurotium
J.F.H.Beyma (1937)
Genera

Connersia
Leuconeurospora
Levispora
Neelakesa – tentative
Pleuroascus
Pseudeurotium
Pseudogymnoascus
Teberdinia

General characteristics

The general characteristics for members within this family include hyaline or brown ascospores, within a thin-walled ascus inside a cleistothecial ascomata.[3]

See also

References
  1. Malloch D, Cain RF (1970). "Five new genera in the new family Pseudeurotiaceae". Canadian Journal of Botany. 48 (10): 1815–25. doi:10.1139/b70-267.
  2. Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet. 13: 1–58.
  3. Cannon PF, Kirk PM (2007). Fungal families of the world. CAB International. p. 299. ISBN 9780851998275.


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