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Nitschkiaceae
Sign in to saveThe Nitschkiaceae are a family of fungi in the Ascomycota, order Coronophorales. Species in the family are mostly saprobic on wood, although some grow on lichens.
Species
FAMILY
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumAscomycota
- ClassSordariomycetes
- OrderCoronophorales
- FamilyNitschkiaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 2
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Nitschkiaceae
- Collections
- DUKE, MEL
- Recorded in
- United States, Sweden
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Genera
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The Nitschkiaceae are a family of fungi in the Ascomycota, order Coronophorales. Species in the family are mostly saprobic on wood, although some grow on lichens.
==Genera== This is a list of the genera in the Nitschkiaceae, based on a 2021 review and summary of fungal classification by Wijayawardene and colleagues. Following the genus name is the taxonomic authority (those who first circumscribed the genus; standardized author abbreviations are used), year of publication, and the number of species: Acanthonitschkea – 10 spp. Biciliosporina – 1 sp. Botryola – 1 sp. Fracchiaea – 35 spp. Groenhiella – 1 sp. Janannfeldtia – 1 sp. Lasiosphaeriopsis – 7 spp. Loranitschkia – 1 sp. Neochaetosphaerella – 4 spp. Nitschkia – 66 spp. Rhagadostoma – 7 spp. Rhagadostomella – 1 sp. Tortulomyces – 1 sp.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nitschkiaceae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.