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Pseudeurotiaceae

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Family of fungi

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

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

General characteristics

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

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.
Taxon identifiers
Pseudeurotiaceae


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