Capnodiales

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Capnodiales
Baudoinia compniacensis growing on Blair Athol distillery, feeding on the angel's share
angel's share
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Dothideomycetes
Subclass: Dothideomycetidae
Order: Capnodiales
Woron. (1925)

Capnodiales is a diverse

saprobes, endophytes, plant pathogens, lichens and rock-inhabiting fungi. The new additions include the genus Mycosphaerella containing the causal agents of several economically important crop and tree diseases. A small number of these fungi are also able to parasitise humans and animals, including species able to colonise human hair shafts (Piedraia hortae).[1]

Accepted families

Genera incertae sedis

There are several genera in the Capnodiales that have not been assigned to any family:[2]

References

  1. PMID 20169022
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  3. ^ Hughes, S.J. 1972. New Zealand Fungi 17. Pleomorphism in Euantaennariaceae and Metacapnodiaceae, two families of sooty moulds. New Zealand Journal of Botany. 10:225-242
  4. PMID 22679590
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