Bambusicolaceae D.Q. Dai & K.D. Hyde, Fungal Diversity 63: 49 (2013)

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Bambusicolaceae was first introduced by Hyde et al. (2013) to accommodate Bambusicola with B. massarinia being the type species. Subsequently, another three genera were accommodated in this family viz. Corylicola (Wijesinghe et al. 2020), Leucaenicola (Jayasiri et al. 2019) and Palmiascoma (Liu et al. 2015). Species of these genera have been reported from various hosts, such as Camellia, Corylus, Eucalyptus, Fagaceae sp., Leucaena, Osmanthus and palm and so far, found distributed in China (Sichuan and Yunnan), Italy and Thailand (Liu et al. 2015; Jayasiri et al. 2019; Ariyawansa et al. 2020a, b; Hongsanan et al. 2020; Wijesinghe et al. 2020; Monkai et al. 2021). Members of Bambusicolaceae are mainly saprobes; however, Ariyawansa et al. (2020a, b) reported that species of Leucaenicola associated with leaf spot diseases on Camellia and Osmanthus in Taiwan (China). Bambusicolaceae is a well-studied family, based on morphological characteristics of sexual-asexual morphs and multigene phylogenetic evidence. Recent taxonomic treatment carried out by Hongsanan et al. (2020) revealed that the family belongs to the suborder Massarineae, order Pleosporales of Dothideomycetes, comprising four genera and 25 species (http://www.indexfungorum.org; accessed on 25 May 2023).