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Sonderhenia eucalyptorum

Sonderhenia eucalyptorum (Hansf.) H.J. Swart & J. Walker, Trans. Br. mycol. Soc. 90(4): 640 (1988).

≡ Hendersonia eucalyptorum Hansf., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 79(3-4): 135 (1954).

           Index Fungorum number: IF 11192; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11219, Fig. 1, 2

Description: see Swart and Walker (1988); Crous et al. (2013); Videira et al. (2017).

Material examined: see Swart and Walker (1988); Crous et al. (2013); Videira et al. (2017).

 

Fig. 1 Sonderhenia eucalyptorum (= Mycosphaerella swartii redrawn from Fig. 15 in Park and Keane 1984). Scale bars: a = 100 µm, b= 20 µm, c = 10 µm.

Fig. 2 Sonderhenia eucalyptorum (redrawn from Swart and Walker 1988). a, b Extreme form on Eucalyptus cladocalyx showing formation of two-celled conidia from ostiolar hyphae. Scale bars = 10 µm.

Importance and distribution

Sonderhenia comprises three species known on Eucalyptus species (Myrtaceae). Sonderhenia has been reported only from Australia and the United States (California).

 

References 

Crous PW, Braun U, Hunter GC, Wingfield MJ, Verkley GJ et al. 2013 – Phylogenetic lineages in Pseudocercospora. Studies in Mycology 75, 37–114.

Park RF, Keane PJ. 1984 – Further Mycosphaerella species causing leaf diseases of Eucalyptus. Transactions of the British Mycological Society 83, 1, 93–105.

Swart H, Walker J. 1988 – Australian leaf-inhabiting fungi. XXVIII. Hendersonia on Eucalyptus. Transactions of The British Mycological Society 90, 633–641.

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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