Teratosphaeriaceae

Teratosphaeriaceae
Baudoinia compniacensis growing on Blair Athol distillery, feeding on the angel's share
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Subdivision:	Pezizomycotina
Class:	Dothideomycetes
Subclass:	Dothideomycetidae
Order:	Mycosphaerellales
Family:	Teratosphaeriaceae

Teratosphaeriaceae is a family of fungi in the order Mycosphaerellales.^[1]

In 2007, this family was recognized as distinct from the genus Mycosphaerella, where it had previously been located, based on phylogenies constructed with the Large Subunit (LSU) of ribosomal DNA.^[2] In general, many fungi in the Mycosphaerellaceae and Teratosphaeriaceae are thought to be widespread, yet there is still little known about their individual distributions or the range of hosts that they inhabit.^[3] After the family was formally split out from Mycosphaerella in 2007,^[2] many new species have been described in this family including a number of causal agents in leaf diseases and stem cankers of Eucalyptus in Uruguay^[3][4] and Australia.^[5][6]

As accepted by Wijayawardene et al. 2020 (with amount of species);^[1]

This family of fungi is notable in that it contains a number of extremeotolerant, so-called black yeast fungi.^[2] A number of these black yeast fungi in the Teratosphaeriaceae are considered 'rock-inhabiting', and manage to survive on the often-harsh exposed surfaces of rocks^[7] in a range of extreme climates, including in Antarctica.^[8] While some of the members of this family live in harsh environments, including the newly described genus Acidiella that grows in highly acidic soils (pH < 3) in Europe,^[9] other closely related species are found as lichens or on plant surfaces.^[10] This family, for example, contains a number of previously recognized leaf spot pathogens and endophytes.^[11][12] Sequences from the plant pathogen Teratosphaeria microspora were even found in a high-throughput screen of fungal spores in indoor dust.^[13]