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Pantospora guazumae

Pantospora guazumae Cif., Annls mycol. 36(2/3): 240 (1938).

           Index Fungorum number: IF 266617; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11186, Fig. 1

Description: see Videira et al. (2017).

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

Fig. 1 Pantospora guazumae (IMI 98499, re-drawn from Fig. 83 in Deighton 1976). a Conidiophores. b Conidia. c Stromata. Scale bars: a, b = 10 μm, c = 100 μm.

Importance and distribution

Pantospora comprises two species causing leaf spots on three host plants and plant families namely Asteraceae, Malvaceae and Musaceae. Pantospora has been reported from Australia, North America (Caribbean, Mexico) and South America (Colombia). Further studies are likely to discover more species of Pantospora.

 

References

Crous PW, Braun U. 2003 – Mycosphaerella and its anamorphs: 1. Names published in Cercospora and Passalora. CBS Biodiversity Series No. 1. Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute, Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Deighton FC. 1976 – Studies on Cercospora and allied genera. VI. Pseudocercospora Speg., Pantospora Cif. and Cercoseptoria Petr. Mycological Papers 140, 1–169.

Minnis AM, Kennedy AH, Grenier DB, Rehner SA, Bischoff JF. 2011 – Asperisporium and Pantospora (Mycosphaerellaceae): epitypifications and phylogenetic placement. Persoonia: Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Fungi 27, 1–8.

Videira SIR, Groenewald JZ, Nakashima C, Braun U, Barreto RW, de Wit PJGM, Crous PW. 2017 – Mycosphaerellaceae - Chaos or clarity? Studies in Mycology 87, 257–421.

 

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