The Pleomassariaceae are a family of fungi in the order Pleosporales. Taxa have a widespread distribution in both temperate and tropical regions, and are saprobic or necrotrophic on wood, bark, and other herbaceous material. The genus was circumscribed by mycologist Margaret Elizabeth Barr-Bigelow in 1979.
FAMILY
via GBIF
The Pleomassariaceae are a family of fungi in the order Pleosporales. Taxa have a widespread distribution in both temperate and tropical regions, and are saprobic or necrotrophic on wood, bark, and other herbaceous material. The genus was circumscribed by mycologist Margaret Elizabeth Barr-Bigelow in 1979.
==Genera== This is a list of the genera in the Pleomassariaceae, 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: Asteromassaria Beverwykella – 3 spp. Lichenopyrenis – 1 sp. Myxocyclus – 1 sp. Peridiothelia – 3 spp. Pleomassaria – 15 spp. Prosthemium – ca. 8 spp. Splanchnonema – 37 spp.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).