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Toxicocladosporium irritans

Toxicocladosporium irritans Crous & U. Braun, in Crous et al., Studies in Mycology 58: 39 (2007).

            Index Fungorum number: IF 504427; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11097,    Fig. 1

            Description: Crous et al. (2007).

            Material considered: Crous et al. (2007).

Fig. 1 Toxicocladosporium irritans (CBS H-19892, holotype, redrawn from Crous et al. 2007). a–c Microconidiophores. d–f Macroconidiophores. g, h Ramoconidia and conidia. Scale bars = 10 µm.

Importance and distribution

Species of Toxicocladosporium are pathogenic to humans, producing volatile metabolites which cause skin rashes (Crous et al. 2007). Toxicocladosporium irritans demonstrate moderate virulence against bean aphids (Abdel-Galil et al. 2019). The genus comprises 15 species known on ten plant hosts in Asteraceae, Cactaceae, Cyperaceae, Myrtaceae, Proteaceae, Rubiaceae, and Strelitziaceae. Toxicocladosporium leucadendri has been synonymized and transferred to Neocladosporium. Toxicocladosporium is reported mainly from Asia (China), Australia (Northern Territory, Queensland), Madagascar, South Africa, South America (Suriname) and the United States.

 

References

Abdel-Galil F, Moharram A, Mahmoud M, Hafez W. 2019 – Biocontrol of Bean and Wheat Aphids by Fungi Isolated from Indigenous and Invasive Insects Collected from Different Locations in Minia Governorate, Egypt. Egyptian Academic Journal of Biological Sciences, F. Toxicology & Pest Control 11, 79–90.

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

David JC. 1997 – A contribution to the systematics of Cladosporium. Revision of the fungi previously referred to Heterosporium. Mycological Papers 172, 1–157.

 

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