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Graphiopsis chlorocephala

Graphiopsis chlorocephala (Fresen.) Trail, Scottish Naturalist 10: 75 (1889).

≡ Periconia chlorocephala Fresen., Beitr. Mykol. 1: 21 (1850).

           Index Fungorum number: IF 180392; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11094,    Fig. 1

Description: see Schubert et al. (2007); Braun et al. (2008).

Material considered: see Schubert et al. (2007); Braun et al. (2008).

Fig. 1 Graphiopsis chlorocephala (= Dichocladosporium chlorocephalum, HAL 2011 F, re-drawn from Fig. 4 in Schubert et al. 2007). Cladosporioid, leaf-spotting morph showing conidiophores and conidia. Scale bar = 10 µm.

Importance and distribution

Graphiopsis comprises only one species associated with leaf-spot, known on Paeonia spp. (Paeoniaceae) in Asia (Armenia, China, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russia), Europe (Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Switzerland, Ukraine), North America (Canada) and New Zealand.

 

References

Berkeley MJ, Broome CE. 1859 – Notices of British Fungi. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, including Zoology, Botany and Geology Series 3, 3, 356–377.

Braun U, Crous P, Bensch K. 2008 – Taxonomic revision of the genus Cladosporium s. lat. 8. Reintroduction of Graphiopsis (= Dichocladosporium) with further reassessments of cladosporioid hyphomycetes. Mycotaxon 103, 207–216.

Grove WB. 1885 – New or noteworthy fungi: - Part II. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign 23: 129–134, 161–169.

Mason EW, Ellis MB. 1953 – British species of Periconia. Mycological Papers 56, 1–127.

Schubert K, Braun U, Groenewald JZ, Crous PW. 2007 – Cladosporium leaf-blotch and stem rot of Paeonia spp. caused by Dichocladosporium chlorocephalum gen. nov. Studies in Mycology 58, 95–104.

Trail JWH. 1889 – Fungi of Inveraray and its vicinity observed in September, 1888. II. Micromycetes. Scottish Naturalist New Series 4, 57–76.

 

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