| Melaspileaceae | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Subphylum: | Pezizomycotina |
| Class: | Arthoniomycetes |
| Order: | Arthoniales |
| Family: | Melaspileacea W. Watson (1929) |
| Type species | |
| Melaspilea Nyl. |
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| Genera | |
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Melaspilea |
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The Melaspileaceae are a family of lichenized fungi in the order Arthoniales. Containing a single genus, Melaspilea, they are poorly understood, and phylogenetic relationships to other taxa in the Ascomycota are not clearly defined.[1]
"Myconet: Outline of Ascomycota 2007". http://www.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp#classArth. Retrieved 2008-11-14.