Coryneliales

Coryneliales
Caliciopsis pinea on Pinus taeda
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Subphylum: Pezizomycotina
Class: Eurotiomycetes
Subclass: Eurotiomycetidae
Order: Coryneliales
Seaver & Chardon (1926)
Families

Coryneliaceae
Eremascaceae

The Coryneliales are an order of ascomycetous fungi within the class Eurotiomycetes and within the subphylum Pezizomycotina. Species in this order are found almost exclusively in the tropics, primarily as a pathogen on the gymnosperm Podocarpus, although it has been found on other plants like the Southern Hemisphere beech Nothofagus, and Drimys.[1]

References

  1. ^ Blackwell, Meredith; Alexopoulos, Constantine John; Mims, Charles W. (1996). Introductory mycology. New York: Wiley. p. 439. ISBN 0-471-52229-5.