MycoBank number:MB 81162; Index Fungorum number:IF 81162;Facesoffungi number: FoF 02296, >2000 species.

Foliicolous,pathogenic,endophyticorsaprobicon plants.Sexual morph:Ascostromatapseudothecial, uniloculate, separate to gregarious, globose, brown to black, with a central ostiole.Asci8-spored, bitunicate, fissitunicate, clavate to subcylindrical, fasciculate, pedicellate, with an ocular chamber.Pseudoparaphysesmostly absent at maturity, when present broad-cylindric, septate, cellular.Ascospores2–3-seriate, ellipsoid-fusoid to limoniform, hyaline, aseptate, smooth-walled, usually with mucilaginous caps, or surrounded by a mucilaginous sheath.Asexual morph: Coelomycetous.Conidiomatapycnidial globose, dark brown, separate to aggregated, with a central ostiole; wall of 3–6 layers of brown cells oftextura angularis.Conidiogenous cellslining the inner wall, hyaline, smooth, subcylindrical to ampulliform or doliiform, proliferating percurrently near apex, frequently covered in mucilaginous sheath.Conidiaellipsoid-fusoid to obovoid or ovoid, hyaline, aseptate, smooth-walled, guttulate or granular, frequently surrounded by a mucilaginous sheath, often bearing a single mucilaginous apical appendage.

Type:PhyllostictaPers.

Notes:Phyllostictaceae(as Phyllostictei) was proposed by Fries (1849). Seaver (1922) used Phyllostictales andPhyllostictaceaeforPhyllosticta.Phyllostictaceaewas accepted by Hawksworth and David (1989). Schoch et al. (2006) suggested thatPhyllostictabelongs toBotryosphaeriaceaeand this was accepted by Crous et al. (2006a) and Liu et al. (2012) who noted thatPhyllostictais distinct from other genera inBotryosphaeriaceae. Wikee et al. (2013b) suggestedPhyllostictaceaeas a distinct family in Botryosphaeriales and Slippers et al. (2013) formally re-instated the family.

Ascospores inMelanopsaceaeandPhyllostictaceaehave a mucilage sheath.Phyllostictaceaediffers fromMelanopsaceaeby uniloculate ascostromata. Though mucoid apical appendages on the conidia have been regarded as characteristic ofPhyllosticta, this feature is not necessarily a characteristic of the family since they are absent in some species such asP. leucothoicolaorP. neopyrolae(Wikee et al. 2013b).

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