Amphisphaeriales

The Amphisphaeriales are an order of fungi within the class Sordariomycetes and subclass Xylariomycetidae. Amphisphaeriales was circumscribed in 1986 by mycologists David Leslie Hawksworth and Ove Erik Eriksson, and Xylariomycetidae by Ove Erik Eriksson and Katarina Winka in 1997. The Amphisphaeriales as an order, was then treated as a synonym of Xylariales, just one year later (by authors Eriksson & Hawksworth, 1987). This classification was followed by subsequent authors and later supported by molecular data (Hawksworth et al. 1995). The order was then resurrected by Senanayake et al. (in 2015), to include Amphisphaeriaceae, Clypeosphaeriaceae and another four novel families derived from Amphisphaeriaceae (Bartaliniaceae, Discosiaceae, Pestalotiopsidaceae and Phlogicylindriaceae). These later 4 families were then synonymised by Jaklitsch et al. (in 2016). An older family name of Sporocadaceae was reestablished to accommodate them instead (Crous et al. 2015). Together with the 'Amphi......read more on Wikipedia.