Melanconidaceae G. Winter, Rabenh. Krypt.-Fl., Edn 2 (Leipzig) 1.2: 764 (1886)

Fan, Xinlei, Du, Zhuo, Bezerra, Jadson D. P. & Tian, Chengming, 2018, Taxonomic circumscription of melanconis-like fungi causing canker disease in China, MycoKeys 42, pp. 89-124 : 99

Melanconidaceae G. Winter, Rabenh. Krypt.-Fl., Edn 2 (Leipzig) 1.2: 764 (1886)

Type genus.

Melanconis Tul. & C. Tul., Select. fung. carpol. (Paris) 2: 115 (1863)

Notes.

Melanconidaceae was introduced by Winter (1886) and subsequently involved many genera with perithecia immersed in a well-developed stroma with ostioles (beaks) that emerge through an ectostromatic disc ( Barr 1978). Castlebury et al. (2002) and Rossman et al. (2007) reduced this family to the type genus Melanconis based on LSU rDNA sequences. In this paper, we provide an updated tree with additional isolates of Melanconis ( Melanconidaceae ) from China (Fig. 5). All species have been described and illustrated by Fan et al. (2016).