Zygosporiaceae

Calabon, Mark S., Jones, E. B. Gareth, Pang, Ka-Lai, Abdel-Wahab, Mohamed A., Jin, Jing, Devadatha, Bandarupalli, Sadaba, Resurreccion B., Apurillo, Carlo Chris & Hyde, Kevin D., 2023, Updates on the classification and numbers of marine fungi, Botanica Marina (Warsaw, Poland) 66 (4), pp. 213-238 : 219

2.3.20 Zygosporiaceae

Li et al. (2017) introduced the Zygosporiaceae as a new family in the Xylariales ( Sordariomycetes) based on phylogenetic analyses of a combined LSU and ITS sequence data generated under maximum likelihood and Bayesian criteria that showed Zygosporium species forming a strongly supported monophyletic lineage basal to the Coniocessiaceae . Zygosporiaceae had been previously introduced by Locquin (1984) but was invalidly published (Nom. inval., Art. 39.1, Melbourne). The type species of Zygosporium is Z. oscheoides ( Montagne 1842) with 23 currently accepted species. Zygosporium gibbum has been reported from the marine environment on cellulosic substrata in salt marshes ( Fell and Hunter 1979) and mangroves ( Sarma and Vittal 2000; Vittal and Sarma 2006). Zygosporium gibbum is characterised by stalked vesicular conidiophores produced directly from the superficial mycelium, and spherical, hyaline, smooth to finely verruculose conidia (Whitton et al. 2003).