Sporocadaceae
| Sporocadaceae | |
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| Images of Neopestalotiopsis rhapidis | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Sordariomycetes |
| Order: | Amphisphaeriales |
| Family: | Sporocadaceae Corda, 1842 |
| Type genus | |
| Sporocadus Corda, 1839 | |
| Genera | |
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The Sporocadaceae are a family of fungi, that was formerly in the order Xylariales. It was placed in the Amphisphaeriales order in 2020.
Species of Sporocadaceae are endophytic (living with a plant), plant pathogenic (causing disease) or saprobic (processing of decayed (dead or waste) organic matter). They are associated with a wide range of host plants. They are also endophytes or parasitic on humans and animals. Some of them are confirmed to cause human and animal diseases. For example, Pestalotiopsis spp. have been isolated from a bronchial biopsy, corneal abrasions, eyes, feet, fingernails, scalp, and sinuses from the human body.
Members of Sporocadaceae are also known as 'pestalotioid fungi', which refers to genera resembling those taxa having affinities with Pestalotia. A former genus, whose species are now split between Pestalotiopsis, Neopestalotiopsis and Pseudopestalotiopsis. 'Pestalotia' also encompasses genus Seiridium.