Phytotaxa 176 (1): 139–155 ISSN 1179-3155 (print edition) www.mapress.com/phytotaxa/ Article PHYTOTAXA Copyright © 2014 Magnolia Press ISSN 1179-3163 (online edition) http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.176.1.14 Englerulaceae (Dothideomycetes) DONG-QIN DAI1,2,3, SARANYAPHAT BOONMEE2,3, QING TIAN2,3,4, YUAN-PIN XIAO6, D. JAYARAMA BHAT2,5, EKACHAI CHUKEATIROTE2,3, S. AISYAH ALIAS4, RUI-LIN ZHAO7, YONG WANG1,* & KEVIN D. 2,3,4 HYDE 1 Department of Plant Pathology, Agriculture College, Guizhou University, Guiyang 550025, People’s Republic of China e-mail:
[email protected] 2 Institute of Excellence in Fungal Research, 3School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand 3 School of Science, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand 4 Institute of Ocean and Earth Sciences, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur 50603, Malaysia 5 No. 128/1-J, Azad Housing Society, Curca, P.O. Goa Velha 403108, India 6 Guizhou Biochem-engineering Research Center, Guizhou University, 550025, People’s Republic of China 7 The State Key Lab of Mycology, Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academic of Science, Beijing 100101, China Abstract The family Englerulaceae presently includes seven genera that produce brown to dark-brown colonies on living leaves. Ascomata are superficial and scattered on the colonies and lack ostioles. Asci are 2–8-spored, bitunicate, ovate to globose and ascospores are multi-seriate, oblong to ellipsoid, brown, and smooth-walled with a single septum. This paper brings all genera of the family together in one place with descriptions and illustrations and discusses their current taxonomic placement.