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Asterinales

Asterinales is an order of fungi in the class Dothideomycetes. It contains ten families according to the 2021 work "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa", each of which is listed with the number of genera it contains:Asterinaceae (18) Asterotexaceae (1) Cylindrohyalosporaceae (1) Hemigraphaceae (1) Lembosiaceae (2) Melaspileellaceae (1) Morenoinaceae (1) Neobueliellaceae (1) Oblongohyalosporaceae (1) Stictographaceae (5)

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Asterinales
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Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Dothideomycetes
Order: Asterinales
M.E. Barr ex D. Hawksw. & O.E. Erikss.
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Synonyms
  • Asterotexales Firmino

Asterinales is an order of fungi in the class Dothideomycetes.1 It contains ten families according to the 2021 work "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa", each of which is listed with the number of genera it contains:1

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  1. Wijayawardene, N.N.; Hyde, K.D.; Dai, D.Q.; Sánchez-García, M.; Goto, B.T.; Saxena, R.K.; et al. (2022). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa – 2021". Mycosphere. 13 (1): 58. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/13/1/2. hdl:10481/76378. S2CID 249054641.