Pirottaea Sacc. 1878

Details

Name scientific

Pirottaea Sacc., Michelia 1 424 (1878)

Preferred name

Pirottaea Sacc. 1878

Biostatus

Origin

Occurrence

Georegion

Schema

Biostatus source

Comment

Present

New Zealand

Political Region

Nomenclature

Original authors

Sacc.

Authors

Sacc.

Publication place

Saccardo, P.A. 1878: Fungi veneti novi vel critici vel Mycologiae Venetae addendi. Series IX. Michelia 1(4): 361-445.

Year published

1878

Publication page

424

Nomenclatural code

ICN

Basionym

Pirottaea Sacc. 1878

Taxonomic rank

genus

Canonical form

Pirottaea

Classification

Kingdom

Fungi

Phylum

Ascomycota

Class

Leotiomycetes

Order

Helotiales

Family

Pyrenopezizaceae

Genus

Pirottaea

Subordinates

Descriptions

Johnston, Peter R.; Quijada, Luis; Smith, Christopher A.; Baral, Hans-Otto; Hosoya, Tsuyoshi; Baschien, Christiane; Pärtel, Kadri; Zhuang, Wen-Ying; Haelewaters, Danny; Park, Duckchul; Carl, Steffen; López-Giráldez, Francesc; Wang, Zheng; Townsend, Jeffrey P. 2019: A multigene phylogeny toward a new phylogenetic classification of Leotiomycetes. IMA Fungus 10(1): 1-22.

Pirottaea Sacc. 1878

Notes

The type species of the New Zealand endemic genus Chaetoscypha was recombined by Johnston (2002) as Pirottaea nidulans. Baral (2016) noted that morphologically P. nidulans has an ascus apical ring typical of Helotiaceae rather than Ploettnerulaceae, the family he accepted for Pirottaea. Sequences from a morphologically similar fungus from New Zealand, Pirottaea palmicola, support the Baral (2016) interpretation of these New Zealand “Pirottaea” species as Helotiaceae.