Magnaporthaceae [SEP] parent taxon
Magnaporthaceae
The Magnaporthaceae are a family of fungi in the order Magnaporthales. It was circumscribed by Paul F. Cannon in 1994 for a group of grass-associated fungi centered on "Magnaporthe" ("Nakataea"). Magnaporthaceae have a harpophora-like asexual morphology and are often associated with roots of grasses or cereals.
Important pathogens from the "Magnaporthaceae" include "Nakataea oryzae, Gaeumannomyces graminis", "Magnaporthiopsis poae" and "Magnaporthe rhizophila".
Taxonomy and Systematics.
Type genus: "Nakataea"
Taxon in disguise
In bacteriology, a taxon in disguise is a species, genus or higher unit of biological classification whose evolutionary history reveals has evolved from another unit of similar or lower rank, making the parent unit paraphyletic. This happens when rapid evolution makes a new species appear radically different from the ancestral group, so that it is not (initially) recognised as belonging to the parent phylogenetic group, leaving the latter an evolutionary grade.
While the term is from bacteriology, parallel examples are found throughout the tree of