Coniochaetales

Coniochaetales
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Subdivision:	Pezizomycotina
Class:	Sordariomycetes
Subclass:	Sordariomycetidae
Order:	Coniochaetales Huhndorf, A.N. Mill. & F.A. Fern.
Families
Coniochaetaceae

The Coniochaetales are an order of fungi within the class Sordariomycetes.^[1] This order is monotypic and contains a single family, the Coniochaetaceae, historically placed in the order Sordariales.^[2] However, this taxonomic placement has been challenged by other authorities, and the Coniochaetales was proposed to include the family Coniochaetaceae.^[3] Species in this family are characterized by having germ-slits in the ascospores, a morphological feature that distinguishes them from species in the Sordariaceae family.^[4] Phylogenetic research in 2006 revealed that four genera in the Coniochaetaceae family, Coniochaeta, Coniochaetidium, Ephemeroascus, and Poroconiochaeta, were not monophyletic, and were all made synonymous with Coniochaeta.^[4]

References

1. ^ Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet (The Field Museum, Department of Botany, Chicago, USA) 13: 1–58. http://www.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp. 
2. ^ Bisby, Guy Richard; Ainsworth, G. C.; Kirk, P. M.; Aptroot, André (2001). Ainsworth & Bisby's Dictionary of the fungi / by P. M. Kirk... [et al.]; with the assistance of A. Aptroot... [et al.]. Oxon: CAB International. p. 126. ISBN 0-85199-377-X. 
3. ^ Huhndorf SM, Miller AN, Fernández FA., S. M.; Miller; Fernández (2004). "Molecular systematics of the Sordariales: the order and the family Lasiosphaeriaceae redefined". Mycologia 96 (2): 368–87. doi:10.2307/3762068. 
4. ^ ^{a b} García D, Stchigel AM, Cano J, Calduch M, Hawksworth DL, Guarro J. (2006). "Molecular phylogeny of Coniochaetales". Mycological Research 110 (Pt 11): 1271–89. doi:10.1016/j.mycres.2006.07.007. PMID 17081739. http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0953-7562(06)00223-1.