Porocercospora seminalis
Porocercospora seminalis (Ellis & Everh.) Amaradasa, Amundsen, Madrid & Crous, Mycologia 106(1): 81 (2014).
≡ Cercospora seminalis Ellis & Everh., J. Mycol. 4(1): 4 (1888).
Index Fungorum number: IF 803982; Facesoffungi number: FoF 00562, Fig. 1
Description: see Amaradasa et al. (2014).
Material considered: see Amaradasa et al. (2014).
Fig. 1 Porocercospora seminalis (CBS H-21149, epitype, re-drawn from Fig. 2 in Amaradasa et al. 2014). a Buffalograss burs infested by Porocercospora seminalis. b Black stroma with spongy spherical top. c–e Aggregated monotretic conidiogenous cells with inconspicuous loci (arrows). f Branched conidiophore. g, h Conidia with arrows indicating distosepta. Scale bars = 10 μm.
Importance and distribution
Porocercospora comprises only one species known on spikelets of Buchloe dactyloides in the United States.
References
Amaradasa B, Madrid H, Groenewald JZ, Crous P, Amundsen K. 2014 – Porocercospora seminalis gen. et comb. nov., the causal organism of buffalo grass false smut. Mycologia 106, 77–85.
Braun U. 1999 – Taxonomic notes on some species of the Cercospora complex VI. Cryptogamie Mycologie 20, 155–177. doi:10.1016/S0181-1584(00)87026-8
Manamgoda DS, Cai L, McKenzie EHC, Crous PW et al. 2012 – A phylogenetic and taxonomic re-evaluation of the Bipolaris-Cochliobolus-Curvularia complex. Fungal Diversity 56, 131–144.
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