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Rachicladosporium luculiae

Rachicladosporium luculiae Crous, U. Braun & C.F. Hill, in Crous et al., Mycol. 58: 39 (2007).

Index Fungorum number: IF 504431; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11096,    Fig. 1

Description: see Crous et al. (2007).

Material considered: see Crous et al. (2007).

Fig. 1 Rachicladosporium luculiae (CBS 121620, holotype; re-drawn from Crous et al. 2007). a–c, e Conidiophores with conidial chains, and conidiogenous loci aggregated in the upper region. d Conidia. Scale bars = 10 µm.

Importance and distribution

Although there are 19 Rachicladosporium epithets in Index Fungorum (2022), the actual number of species is less as some have been synonymized. Rachicladosporium comprises 13 species known on six host plants and four plant families namely Malvaceae, Myrtaceae, Pinaceae and Rubiaceae. Rachicladosporium is reported mainly from Africa (Ethiopia, Ghana), Antarctica, Europe (Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand and the United States (Virginia), associated with leaf spots.

 

Reference

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

 

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