Helotiales

Short description: Order of fungi

Helotiales

Chlorociboria (Chlorociboriaceae)
Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Fungi
Division:  | Ascomycota
Class:  | Leotiomycetes
Subclass:  | Leotiomycetidae
Order:  | Helotiales
Nannf. ex Korf & Lizon (2000)
Families

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Helotiales is an order of the class Leotiomycetes within the division Ascomycota.[1] The taxonomy within Helotiales has been debated. It has expanded significantly as genomic techniques for taxonomical identification have become more commonly used. (As of February 2020), the order is estimated to contain 30 accepted families, 519 genera, and 6266 species.[2]

Helotiales is the largest order of non-stromatic discomycetes that usually, but not always, have brightly coloured apothecia. Many members of the family have obviously cup-shaped ascomata with little or no stipes. They are usually found fruiting on coarse or large wood debris as well as on other organic matter. Part of these discomycetes are limited to a specific host range, this goes as far as to not just being limited to one particular plant, additionally some species need a particular part of that plant.[3]

## Contents

* 1 Description
* 2 Families
* 3 Disputed or previously included families
* 4 See also
* 5 References
* 6 External links

## Description

* Helotiales is distinguished by its disc or cup-shaped apothecia.
* Its asci are only slightly thickened in contrast to other Leotiomycetes
* Most Helotiales species live as saprobes on soil humus, dead logs, manure and other organic matter.
* The order includes most fungi that engage in ericoid mycorrhiza, including Rhizoscyphus ericae, Meliniomyces species and Cairneyella variabilis.
* The order contains some of the most severe plant pathogens such as Monilinia fructicola (brown rot on stone fruits), Sclerotinia sclerotiorum (lettuce drop and other diseases), D. rosae (black spot of roses), Sclerotium cepivorum (soft rot of onions) and Botrytis cinerea.

## Families

* Amicodiscaceae
* Arachnopezizaceae
* Bryoglossaceae
* Cenangiaceae
* Chlorociboriaceae[3][4][5]
* Chlorospleniaceae
* Chrysodiscaceae
* Dermateaceae
* Discinellaceae
* Drepanopezizaceae
* Gelatinodiscaceae
* Godroniaceae
* Hamatocanthoscyphaceae
* Helotiaceae
* Heterosphaeriaceae
* Hyaloscyphaceae
* Hydrocinaceae
* Lachnaceae
* Loramycetaceae
* Mitrulaceae
* Mollisiaceae
* Neolauriomycetaceae
* Pleuroascaceae
* Ploettnerulaceae
* Rutstroemiaceae
* Sclerotiniaceae[6]
* Solenopeziaceae
* Tympanidaceae
* Vibrisseaceae[7]

## Disputed or previously included families

* Amorphothecaceae \- Kirk (2008) assigned to Helotiales, but reclassified under order Erysiphales.[8][9]
* Ascocorticiaceae \- reclassified under order Medeolariales[10]
* Hemiphacidiaceae \- Merged with Cenangiaceae in the 2010s.[11]
* Phacidiaceae (also known as Bulgariaceae) - reclassified under order Phacidiales[12]
* Vandijckellaceae - identified by Crous et al. (2017), not widely accepted.[13]

* Green Elfcup or Green Wood Cup Chlorociboria aeruginascens, family: Chlorociboriaceae
(photo: Holger Krisp)

* Ascocoryne, family: Helotiaceae

* Mollisia benesuada, family: Dermateaceae

* Bisporella citrina, family: Helotiaceae

* Arachnopeziza aurata, family: Hyaloscyphaceae

* Brown oak disk cup Rutstroemia firma, family: Rutstroemiaceae
(photo: Holger Krisp)

* The necrotrophic fungus Botrytis conidiophores, Magnification X16, family: Sclerotinaceae

* Vibrissea truncorum, family: Vibrisseaceae
image source: Mushroom Observer[14]

## See also

* List of Helotiales genera incertae sedis

## References

1. ↑ "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet (Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany) 13: 1–58. December 2007. http://archive.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp.
2. ↑ Kirk, Paul (2020). Species Fungorum for CoL+ | COL. doi:10.48580/dfp3-4hj. https://www.catalogueoflife.org/data/dataset/2073. Retrieved 2022-03-30.
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Helotiales: The non-stromatic Cup Funghi". Mycologywebpages New Brunswick Museum. http://website.nbm-mnb.ca/mycologywebpages/NaturalHistoryOfFungi/Helotiales.html.
4. ↑ "Chlorociboria aeruginascens & C. aeruginosa". 2004. http://www.mushroomexpert.com/chlorociboria_aeruginascens.html.
5. ↑ "Brahmaculus gen. nov. (Leotiomycetes, Chlorociboriaceae)". MycoKeys 80: 19–43. 2021. doi:10.3897/mycokeys.80.64435. PMID 34025144.
6. ↑ "Life history and systematics of the aquatic discomycete Mitrula (Helotiales, Ascomycota) based on cultural, morphological, and molecular studies". American Journal of Botany 92 (9): 1565–1574. September 2005. doi:10.3732/ajb.92.9.1565. PMID 21646174.
7. ↑ "Discomycete systematics today: a look at some unanswered questions in a group of unitunicate ascomycetes". Mycosystema 3: 19–27. 1990.
8. ↑ Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. 2008. p. 310. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8. https://archive.org/details/dictionaryfungit00kirk.
9. ↑ "Amorphothecaceae" (in en). https://www.gbif.org/species/1946.
10. ↑ (in en) Phylogenetic Advances in Leotiomycetes, an Understudied Clade of Taxonomically and Ecologically Diverse Fungi, Oxford: Elsevier, 2021-01-01, pp. 284–294, doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-819990-9.00052-4, ISBN 978-0-323-85180-0
11. ↑ Pärtel, Kadri; Baral, Hans-Otto; Tamm, Heidi; Poldmaa, Kadri (2016). "Evidence for the polyphyly of Encoelia and Encoelioideae with reconsideration of respective families in Leotiomycetes". Fungal Diversity 82 (1): 183–219. doi:10.1007/s13225-016-0370-0.
12. ↑ "Phacidium and Ceuthospora (Phacidiaceae) are congeneric: taxonomic and nomenclatural implications". IMA Fungus 5 (2): 173–193. December 2014. doi:10.5598/imafungus.2014.05.02.02. PMID 25734027.
13. ↑ "Fungal Planet description sheets: 625-715". Persoonia 39 (1): 270–467. December 2017. doi:10.3767/persoonia.2017.39.11. PMID 29503478.
14. ↑ "Vibrissea truncorum (Alb. & Schwein.) Fr. (335788)". Mushroom Observer. https://mushroomobserver.org/image/show_image/335788.

## External links

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