Ascoideaceae

{{Short description|Family of fungi}}

{{Taxobox

| fossil_range = {{Fossil range|Palaeogene|present}}

| regnum = Fungi

| divisio = Ascomycota

| classis = Saccharomycetes

| ordo = Saccharomycetales

| familia = Ascoideaceae

| familia_authority = J.Schröt. (1894)

| type_genus = Ascoidea

| type_genus_authority = Bref. (1891)

| type_species = Ascoidea rubescens

| type_species_authority = Bref. (1891)

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision =

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• Ascoidea asiatica
• Ascoidea corymbosa
• Ascoidea rubescens
• Ascoidea tarda
• Alloascoidea africana
• Alloascoidea hylecoeti

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The Ascoideaceae are a family of yeasts in the order Saccharomycetales. It contains the two genera Ascoidea and Alloascoidea.Cletus P. Kurtzman, Christie J. Robnett (2013) Alloascoidea hylecoeti gen. nov., comb. nov., Alloascoidea africana comb. nov., Ascoidea tarda sp. nov., and Nadsonia starkeyi-henricii comb. nov., new members of the Saccharomycotina (Ascomycota). FEMS Yeast Research 13: 423–432. doi: 10.1111/1567-1364.12044{{cite journal|vauthors=Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM |date=December 2007 |title=Outline of Ascomycota – 2007 |journal=Myconet |volume=13 |pages=1–58 |url=http://archive.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp |publisher=The Field Museum, Department of Botany, Chicago, USA |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090318003134/http://www.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp |archivedate=2009-03-18 }} Species in the family have a widespread distribution, and typically grow in beetle galleries in dead wood.{{cite book |vauthors=Cannon PF, Kirk PM |title=Fungal Families of the World |publisher=CAB International |location=Wallingford, UK |year=2007 |pages=22–23 |isbn=978-0-85199-827-5}}