Vialaeaceae
| Vialaeaceae | |
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| Family: | Vialaeaceae P.F.Cannon |
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| Vialaea | |
The Vialaeaceae are a family of fungi in the Ascomycota and class Sordariomycetes. In 2018, it was placed in the order Amphisphaeriales.
This is a monotypic taxon, containing the single genus Vialaea. The family of Vialaeaceae was named by P.F. Cannon in 1995. Pier Andrea Saccardo circumscribed the genus in Bull. Soc. Mycol. France vol.12 n page 66 in 1896.
The genus name of Vialaea is in honour of Pierre Viala (1859–1936), who was a French scientist.
Species in the family are distributed in both temperate and tropical areas of the world, where they grow parasitically on twigs.