Papulosaceae

{{Short description|Family of fungi}}

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| regnum = Fungi

| divisio = Ascomycota

| classis = Sordariomycetes

| ordo = incertae sedis

| familia = Papulosaceae

| familia_authority = Winka & O.E. Erikss. (2000)

| type_genus = Papulosa

| type_genus_authority = Kohlm. & Volkm.-Kohlm. (1993)

| type_species = Papulosa amerospora

| type_species_authority = Kohlm. & Volkm.-Kohlm. (1993)

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The Papulosaceae are a family of fungi in the class Sordariomycetes and in the subclass Diaporthomycetidae.{{cite journal |display-authors=6 |last1=Wijayawardene |first1=Nalin |last2=Hyde |first2=Kevin |first3=Laith Khalil Tawfeeq |last3=Al-Ani |last4=Somayeh |first4=Dolatabadi |last5=Stadler |first5=Marc |last6=Haelewaters |first6=Danny |last7=Tsurykau |first7=Andrei |last8=Mesic |first8=Armin |last9=Navathe |first9=Sudhir |last10=Papp |first10=Viktor |last11=Oliveira Fiuza |first11=Patrícia |last12=Vázquez |first12=Víctor |last13=Gautam |first13=Ajay |last14=Becerra |first14=Alejandra G. |last15=Ekanayaka |first15=Anusha |last16=K. C. |first16=Rajeshkumar |last17=Bezerra |first17=Jadson |last18=Matočec |first18=Neven |last19=Maharachchikumbura |first19=Sajeewa |last20=Suetrong |first20=Satinee |year=2020 |title=Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa |journal=Mycosphere |volume=11 |pages=1060–1456 |doi=10.5943/mycosphere/11/1/8 |doi-access=free|hdl=10481/61998 |hdl-access=free }} The family has not been assigned to any order (incertae sedis).{{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 |location=Chicago, USA }} A monotypic taxon, the Papulosaceae contained the single genus Papulosa, which in turn contains the single species Papulosa amerospora.{{cite journal |vauthors=Kohlmeyer J, Volkmann-Kohlmeyer B|year=1993|title=Two new genera of Ascomycotina from saltmarsh Juncus|journal=Systema Ascomycetum|volume=11|pages=95–106}} This species, found in the eastern USA, grows in Juncus stems.{{cite journal |doi= 10.1007/BF02464316 |vauthors=Winka K, Eriksson OE|year=2000 |title=Papulosa amerospora accommodated in a new family (Papuulosaceae, Sordariomycetes, Ascomycota) inferred from morphological and molecular data |journal=Mycoscience |volume=41 |issue=2 |pages=97–103}}

In 2020, 3 other fungal genera joined the taxon of Papulosa.