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Pleurophoma pleurospora

Pleurophoma pleurospora (Sacc.) Höhn., Sber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math.-naturw. Kl., Abt. 1 123: 117 (1914)

≡ Dendrophoma pleurospora Sacc., Syll. fung. (Abellini) 3: 178 (1884)

Index Fungorum number: IF 121169; Facesoffungi number: FoF 11562, Fig. 1

Description: see de Gruyter et al. (2013).

Material considered: see de Gruyter et al. (2013).

Fig. 1 Pleurophoma pleurospora (CBS 130329; redrawn from Fig. 7 in de Gruyter et al. 2013). a Colony on OA. b Pycnidia. c–e Conidiogenous cells, septate conidiophores with acropleurogenous conidiogenesis. f Phoma-like conidiogenous cells. g Conidia. Scale bars: b = 50 µm, c, d = 10 µm, e–g = 5 µm.

Importance and distribution

Pleurophoma comprises nine species known on eight host families, Fabaceae, Brassicaceae, Phyllachoraceae, Poaceae, Pinaceae, Rosaceae, Rubiaceae and Salicaceae. Pleurophoma has been reported from Europe (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Latvia) and Western Australia.

 

Reference

De Gruyter J, Woudenberg JHC, Aveskamp AA, Verkley GJM et al. 2013 – Redisposition of phoma-like anamorphs in Pleosporales. Studies in Mycology 75, 1–36.

 

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