Conioscyphales

Conioscyphales is an order of freshwater and terrestrial fungi within the division Ascomycota. It is in the subclass Savoryellomycetidae and the class Sordariomycetes and the subdivision of Pezizomycotina. It only contains the monotypic family Conioscyphaceae and the genus Conioscypha (which has 18 species). It was formerly in subclass Hypocreomycetidae O.E. Erikss. & Winka 1997, until 2017, when it was placed in subclass Savoryellomycetidae Hongsanan et al. Although still located within class Sordariomycetes. The Conioscypha clade, based on molecular data, was considered as Ascomycota incertae sedis with Conioscypha and Conioscyphascus considered congeneric (Réblová and Seifert, 2004, Zelski et al., 2015 ) with Conioscypha accepted as the recommend name under the one name protocol (Réblová et al. 2016a). In 2016, phylogenetic analyses of DNA sequences from nuclear ribosomal and protein-coding loci support the placement of several perithecial ascomycetes and dematiaceous hyphomycetes f......read more on Wikipedia.