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Issue: Vol. 176 No. 1: 20 August 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-08-20
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.176.1.5
Page range: 18–27
Abstract views: 28
PDF downloaded: 68

Towards a natural classification of Dothideomycetes 3: The genera Muellerites, Trematosphaeriopsis, Vizellopsis and Yoshinagella (Dothideomycetes incertae sedis)

Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China Department of Botany and Microbiology, College of Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, KSA Institute of Excellence in Fungal Research and 4School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100, Thailand School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand The State Key Lab of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academic of Science, Beijing 100101, China
Department of Botany and Microbiology, College of Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, KSA
Institute of Excellence in Fungal Research and 4School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100, Thailand
Guizhou Biochem-engineering Research Center, Guizhou University, 550025, Guiyang China
Institute of Excellence in Fungal Research and 4School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100, Thailand School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand
The State Key Lab of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academic of Science, Beijing 100101, China
Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research, Private Bag 92170, Auckland, New Zealand
Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China World Agroforestry Centre, East and Central Asia, Kunming 650201, China
Key Laboratory for Plant Diversity and Biogeography of East Asia, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Science, Kunming 650201, Yunnan, China Institute of Excellence in Fungal Research and 4School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai, 57100, Thailand School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand
Ascomycota Dothideomycetes taxonomy types

Abstract

We re-examine the generic types of genera with unclear placement in Dothideomycetes. These genera were hitherto poorly illustrated or described. Following examination their appropriate familial or ordinal level placements based on modern morphology concepts may be better understood. The generic types of Muellerites, Trematosphaeriopsis, Vizellopsis and Yoshinagella were re-examined in this study. Muellerites is placed in Dothidotthiaceae, Vizellopsis in Asterinaceae, while Trematosphaeriopsis and Yoshinagella are retained in Dothideomycetes incertae sedis, as they are not typical of any existing families of Dothideomycetes. By illustrating and redescribing the genera we expect renewed interest for recollection and molecular study so that these dothideomycetous genera can be placed in a natural taxonomic framework.