Hypocreaceae
Encyclopedia
The Hypocreaceae are a family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 within the class Sordariomycetes
Sordariomycetes
The Sordariomycetes are a class of fungi in the subdivision Pezizomycotina , consisting of 15 orders, 64 families, 1119 genera, and 10564 species.Sordariomycetes generally produce their asci in perithecial fruiting bodies....

. Species of Hypocreaceae are usually recognized by their brightly colored, perithecial ascomata
Ascocarp
An ascocarp, or ascoma , is the fruiting body of an ascomycete fungus. It consists of very tightly interwoven hyphae and may contain millions of asci, each of which typically contains eight ascospores...

, typically yellow, orange or red. The family was proposed by Giuseppe De Notaris in 1844. According to the Dictionary of the Fungi (10th edition, 2008), the family has 22 genera
Genera
Genera is a commercial operating system and development environment for Lisp machines developed by Symbolics. It is essentially a fork of an earlier operating system originating on the MIT AI Lab's Lisp machines which Symbolics had used in common with LMI and Texas Instruments...

 and 454 species.

Genera

  • Aphysiostroma
  • Cladobotryum
  • Gliocladium
  • Hypocrea
    Hypocrea
    Hypocrea is a genus of fungi in the Hypocreaceae family. The widespread genus is estimated to contain 171 species that grow on rotten wood, and are often associated with other fungi. Anamorphic genera associated with Hypocrea include Acremonium, Gliocladium, Trichoderma, and Verticillium...

  • Hypocreopsis
    Hypocreopsis
    Hypocreopsis is a genus of fungus....

  • Hypomyces
    Hypomyces
    Hypomyces is a genus of parasitic Ascomycete fungi found in North America and Australia. The genus contains 53 species. Its members include the lobster mushroom and the bolete eater ....

  • Mycogone
  • Nectria
    Nectria
    This article is about a genus of fungi. For the echinoderm genus, see Nectria .Nectria is a genus of Ascomycete fungi. They are most often encountered as saprophytes on decaying wood but some species can also occur as parasites of trees, especially fruit trees and a number of other hardwood trees...

  • Podostroma
    Podostroma
    Podostroma is a genus of fungi in the Hypocreaceae family. It was described by the Finnish mycologist Petter Karsten in 1892. The genus contain 11 species that collectively have a widespread distribution.- Species :* P. africanum* P. alutaceum...

  • Protocrea
  • Rogersonia
  • Sarawakus
  • Sepedonium
  • Sphaerostilbella
  • Sporophagomyces
  • Stephanoma
  • Trichoderma
    Trichoderma
    Trichoderma is a genus of fungi that is present in all soils, where they are the most prevalent culturable fungi. Many species in this genus can be characterized as opportunistic avirulent plant symbionts.-Species:...

The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
 
x
OK