Helminthosphaeriaceae

The Helminthosphaeriaceae are a family of fungi in the class Sordariomycetes.^[1] Species in this family are saprobic, often growing on rotten wood or on the fruit bodies of old mushrooms. They are distributed in temperate areas.^[2]

Helminthosphaeriaceae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Sordariomycetes
Order:	Chaetosphaeriales
Family:	Helminthosphaeriaceae Samuels, Cand. & Magni (1997)
Type genus
Helminthosphaeria Fuckel (1870)

Genera

As accepted by Wijayawardene et al. 2020 (with amount of species per genus);^[3]

• Echinosphaeria A.N. Mill. & Huhndorf (14)
• Helminthosphaeria Fuckel (ca. 20)
• Hilberina Huhndorf & A.N. Mill. (ca. 20)
• Ruzenia O. Hilber (1)