Melanconidaceae G. Winter

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Melanconidaceae G. Winter [as ‘ Melanconideae’], Rabenh. Krypt. - Fl., Edn 2 (Leipzig) 1.2: 764 (1886)

Notes.

Melanconidaceae was established by Winter (1886). This family initially encompassed numerous genera characterised by perithecia immersed in well-developed stromata, with ostioles emerging through an ectostromatic disc ( Barr 1978). However, based on analyses of LSU sequence data, Castlebury et al. (2002) and Rossman et al. (2007) later reduced this family to include only the type genus, Melanconis . Fan et al. (2018 b) further confirmed that Melanconidaceae should be treated as a monotypic family, containing only the genus Melanconis .