Massarinaceae

Massarinaceae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Subdivision:	Pezizomycotina
Class:	Dothideomycetes
Subclass:	Pleosporomycetidae
Order:	Pleosporales
Family:	Massarinaceae Munk
Type genus
Massarina Sacc.
Genera
Keissleriella Massarina Saccharicola

The Massarinaceae are a family of fungi in the order Pleosporales. Although taxa have a cosmopolitan distribution, they are better-known in temperate regions. They are thought to be saprobic in wood and bark; some species are weak pathogens.

In 2013, Quaedvlieg et al. expanded this family with the genus "Stagonospora" in the article named "Sizing up Septoria" by showing that the type of the fungal genus "Stagonospora" (Stagonospora paludosa) actually clustered inside the Massarinaceae and not in the Phaeosphaeriaceae as was previously assumed. This also caused that the Phaeosphaeriaceae located genus previously known as "Stagonospora", incorporating several important pathogens on grasses (e.g. Stagonospora nodorum and S. avenae), was subsequently renamed into "Parastagonospora". ^[1]

^[2] ==References==

1. Cannon PF, Kirk PM. (2007). Fungal Families of the World. Wallingford: CABI. ISBN 0-85199-827-5.
2. Quaedvlieg, W.; G.J.M. Verkley, H.-D. Shin, R.W. Barreto, A.C. Alfenas, W.J. Swart, J.Z. Groenewald, and P.W. Crous (2013). "Sizing up Septoria" (PDF). Studies in Mycology 75: 307–390. doi:10.3114/sim0017. PMC 3713890. PMID 24014902. Cite uses deprecated parameter |coauthors= (help)