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Neocladosporium leucadendri

Neocladosporium leucadendri (Crous) J.D.P. Bezerra, Sand.-Den., Souza-Motta & Crous, in Bezerra et al., IMA Fungus 8(1): 87 (2017).

            ≡ Toxicocladosporium leucadendri Crous, in Crous et al., Persoonia 27: 157 (2011).

           Index Fungorum number: IF 820267; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11095 , Fig. 1

Description: see Bezerra et al. (2017).

Material examined: see Bezerra et al. (2017).

 

            Fig. 1 Neocladosporium leucadendri (CBS 131317, ex-type culture; redrawn from Bezerra et al. 2017). a–d Conidiophores giving rise to chains of conidia. Scale bar: a–d = 10 μm.

Importance and distribution

Neocladosporium comprises only one species associated with leaf spot on Leucadendron sp. (Proteaceae) in South Africa (Bezerra et al. 2017).

 

References

Bezerra J, Sandoval-Denis M, Paiva L, Silva G, Groenewald J, Souza-Motta C, Crous P. 2017 – New endophytic Toxicocladosporium species from cacti in Brazil, and description of Neocladosporium gen. nov. IMA fungus 8, 77–97.

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.

Crous PW, Braun U, Schubert K, Groenewald JZ. 2007 – Delimiting Cladosporium from morphologically similar genera. Studies in Mycology 58, 33–56.

Schubert K, Groenewald JZ, Braun U. 2007 – Biodiversity in the Cladosporium herbarum complex (Davidiellaceae, Capnodiales), with standardization of methods for Cladosporium taxonomy and diagnostics. Studies in Mycology 58, 105–156.

 

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