Meliola

Meliola
	I. Meliola plebeja Speg. II. Meliola longipoda Gaill. III. Meliola obducens Gaill. IV. Meliola laxa Gaill. V. Meliola parenchymatica Gaill.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Sordariomycetes
Order:	Meliolales
Family:	Meliolaceae
Genus:	Meliola; Fr. (1825)
Type species
	Meliola nidulans; (Schwein.) Cooke (1882)
Synonyms
	Arberia Nieuwl. (1916); Asteridium (Sacc.) Speg. ex Sacc. (1891); Asterina subgen. Asteridium Sacc. (1882); Chaetomeliola (Cif.) Bat., H.Maia & M.L.Farr (1962); Laeviomeliola Bat. (1960); Meliola subgen. Chaetomeliola Cif. (1938); Meliothecium Mussat (1901); Myxothecium Kunze 1829;

Meliola is a large genus of fungi in the family Meliolaceae. It was circumscribed by Swedish mycologist Elias Magnus Fries in 1825.^[1]^[2]

Species[edit]

As of October 2022^[update], Species Fungorum (in the Catalogue of Life) accepts 1701 species of Meliola,^[3] Outline of Fungi notes 1700 species.^[4] Species in the genus include:

^ ^a ^b "Meliola". Species Fungorum. Retrieved 27 June 2018.
^ Fries, E.M. (1825). "Sphaeriacei". Systema orbis vegetabilis (Lundae) (in Latin). Vol. 1. p. 111.
^ Source dataset. Species Fungorum Plus: Species Fungorum for CoL+. "Meliola". Catalog of Life Version 2022-09-25. Retrieved 7 October 2022.
^ Wijayawardene, Nalin; Hyde, Kevin; Al-Ani, Laith Khalil Tawfeeq; Somayeh, Dolatabadi; Stadler, Marc; Haelewaters, Danny; et al. (2020). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa". Mycosphere. 11: 1060–1456. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/11/1/8. hdl:10481/61998.

This Sordariomycetes-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.