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Meliolaceae

family of fungi

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ6812558 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Meliolaceae are a family of fungi in the order Meliolales. Mostly tropical in distribution, species in this family are biotrophic on the leaves and stems of plants. Despite this, most species do not cause extensive damage to the host plant, and are not generally considered to be of economic significance.

Genera

The following genera belong to the family Melioceae, according to the 2020 study. (includes number of species per genus)

Amazonia Theiss. (60)

Appendiculella Höhn. (70)

Asteridiella McAlpine (2)

Ceratospermopsis Batista (2)

Cryptomeliola S. Hughes & Piroz. (3)

Endomeliola S. Hughes & Piroz. (1)

Irenopsis F. Stevens (150)

Meliola Fr.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Meliolaceae” is family of fungi. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Meliolaceae, family and fungi, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Meliolaceae, family and fungi is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “family of fungi” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6812558. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “Meliolaceae” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.