Dictyosporiaceae Boonmee & K.D. Hyde, in Boonmee et al., Fungal Diversity: 10.1007/s13225-016-0363-z, [7] (2016)

Phookamsak, Rungtiwa, Hongsanan, Sinang, Bhat, Darbhe Jayarama, Wanasinghe, Dhanushka N., Promputtha, Itthayakorn, Suwannarach, Nakarin, Kumla, Jaturong, Xie, Ning, Dawoud, Turki M., Mortimer, Peter E., Xu, Jianchu & Lumyong, Saisamorn, 2024, Exploring ascomycete diversity in Yunnan II: Introducing three novel species in the suborder Massarineae (Dothideomycetes, Pleosporales) from fern and grasses, MycoKeys 104, pp. 9-50 : 9

Dictyosporiaceae Boonmee & K.D. Hyde, in Boonmee et al., Fungal Diversity: 10.1007/s13225-016-0363-z, [7] (2016)

Notes.

Dictyosporiaceae was introduced by Boonmee et al. (2016) to initially accommodate ten genera that were mainly represented by the hyphomycetous asexual morph, forming cheiroid, digitate, palmate and/or dictyosporous conidia. The sexual morph is scarcely known for this family, of which species of genera Dictyosporium , Gregarithecium , Immotthia , Pseudocoleophoma , Sajamaea and Verrucoccum have been represented as the sexual morph ( Boonmee et al. 2016; Piątek et al. 2020; Atienza et al. 2021; Jiang et al. 2021a). Members of Dictyosporiaceae are morphologically diverse in various ecological niches, commonly known as saprobes on plant litter in terrestrial and freshwater habitats ( Tanaka et al. 2015; Boonmee et al. 2016; Li et al. 2017; Crous et al. 2019; Rajeshkumar et al. 2021; Tian et al. 2022; Tennakoon et al. 2023). Besides, some genera were known as fungicolous (hyperparasites and mycoparasites) and lichenicolous fungi as well as inhabiting soil and herbivore dung ( Iturrieta-González et al. 2018; Piątek et al. 2020; Atienza et al. 2021; Jiang et al. 2021a). An updated taxonomic description of Dictyosporiaceae was provided by Hongsanan et al. (2020) who listed 15 genera in this family, while Wijayawardene et al. (2022b) listed 17 genera in Dictyosporiaceae . Tennakoon et al. (2023) provided a backbone tree of Dictyosporiaceae and currently listed 20 genera in this family, namely Aquadictyospora , Aquaticheirospora , Cheiro-sporium, Dendryphiella , Dictyocheirospora , Dictyopalmispora , Dictyo-sporium, Digito-desmium, Gregarithecium , Immotthia , Jalapriya , Neodendryphiella , Neodigito-desmium, Pseudocoleophoma , Pseudoconiothyrium , Pseudocyclo-thyriella, Pseudodictyosporium , Sajamaea , Verrucoccum and Vikalpa .