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Acroconidiella tropaeoli

Acroconidiella tropaeoli (T.E.T. Bond) J.C. Lindq. & Alippi, Darwiniana 13(2-4): 613 (1964).

≡ Heterosporium tropaeoli T.E.T. Bond, Ceylon J. Sci., Sect. A 12: 185 (1947).

            Index Fungorum number: IF 325788; Facesoffungi number: FoF 12123, Fig. 1

Description: see Ferreira and Barreto (2019).

Material considered: see Ferreira and Barreto (2019).

Fig. 1 Acroconidiella tropaeoli (= Alternaria obtusa, VIC 44410; re-drawn from Ferreira and Barreto 2019). a Leaf spots. b Tretic conidiogenous cell bearing attached immature conidium and one mature conidium. c One-septate immature conidium. d Acropetal conidial chain. Scale bars: a = 1 cm, b–d = 10 μm.

Importance and distribution

Acroconidiella is in the list of Quarantine pests of plants of Japan (IPPC 2016) and Korea (IPPC 2016). Acroconidiella comprises five species known on Eschscholzia californica (Papaveraceae), Glycine max (Fabaceae), Trichachne insularis (Poaceae) and Tropaeolum sp. (Tropaeolaceae). Acroconidiella is reported from Africa (Mauritius), Asia (India), Europe (Portugal), North America (Caribbean (Cuba), The United States), Oceania (Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea), South Africa and South America (Brazil).

 

References

Bond TET. 1947 – Notes on Ceylon fungi and plant diseases. Part I (1-15). Ceylon Journal of Sciences 12, 171–193.

De Vries GA. 1952 – Contribution to the knowledge of the genus Cladosporium link ex Fr. Thesis. Hollandia Press, Baarn.

Ellis MB. 1971 – Dematiaceous Hyphomycetes. Commonwealth Mycological Institute, Kew, UK.

Ferreira BW, Barreto RW. 2019 – Debunking Acroconidiella. Mycological Progress 18, 1303–1315.

Hongsanan S, Hyde KD, Phookamsak R, Wanasinghe DN et al. 2020a – Refined families of Dothideomycetes: Dothideomycetidae and Pleosporomycetidae. Mycosphere 11,1553–2107.

International Plant Protection Convention: IPPC. 2016 – Available at: https://www.ippc.int/en/

Lindquist JC, Alippi HE. 1964 – Un nuevo genero de hongo parasito de Tropaeolum majus, Acroconidiella tropaeoli (Bond) nov. comb. sinonimo Heterosporium tropaeoli Bond. Darwiniana 13, 607–614.

Prasher IB, Verma R. 2015 – Neosporidesmium appendiculatus sp. nov. from North–Western India. Mycological Progress 14, 10.

Vieira BS, Barreto RW. 2002 – First record of leaf-spot caused by Acroconidiella tropaeoli on Tropaeolum majus in Brazil. New Disease Reports 5, 12.

 

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