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Phaeoxyphiella morototoni

Phaeoxyphiella morototoni Bat. & Cif., Quad. Ist. Bot. Univ. Pavia 31: 149 (1963).

           Index Fungorum number: IF 336218; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11073,    Fig. 1

Description: see Abdollahzadeh et al. (2020).

Material considered: see Abdollahzadeh et al. (2020).

Fig. 1 Phaeoxyphiella phylicae (CBS H-24300, holotype, re-drawn from Fig. 19 in Abdollahzadeh et al. 2020). a Conidiomata with conidia on SNA. b Conidia. c Spermogonia. d Microconidia. Scale bars: a = 50 μm, b, d = 20 μm, c = 10 μm.

Importance and distribution

Phaeoxyphiella species are sooty molds which live saprobically and superficially on the host plant and tend to reduce the photosynthetic ability of the host by forming fungal hyphae on surface of the leaves (Abdollahzadeh et al. 2020). There are seven species known on a wide range of plants such as Bromelia sp. (Bromeliaceae), Cestrum sp. (Solanaceae), Didymopanax morototoni (Araliaceae), Drypetes alba (Putranjivaceae), Ilex sp. (Aquifoliaceae), Lobelia oxyphylla (Campanulaceae), Mangifera indica (Anacardiaceae), Psidium guajava (Myrtaceae), Purdiaea stenopetala (Clethraceae) and Vernonia sagraeana (Compositae). Phaeoxyphiella is reported from several countries including Caribbean (Puerto Rico), North America (West Indies), South America (Brazil) and the United States (Virgin Islands).

 

Reference

Abdollahzadeh J, Groenewald JZ, Coetzee M, Wingfield MJ, Crous P. 2020 – Evolution of lifestyles in Capnodiales. Studies in Mycology 95, 381–414.

 

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