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Chaetophoma quercifolia

Chaetophoma quercifolia Cooke, Grevillea 7(no. 41): 25 (1878).

            Index Fungorum number: IF 181938; Facesoffungi number: FoF11788, Fig. 1

Description: see Wijayawardene et al. (2014).

Material examined: see Wijayawardene et al. (2014).

 

Fig. 1 Chaetophoma quercifolia (re-drawn from Sutton 1980). a Surface view of conidioma. b Different stages of conidiogenesis. c Conidia. Scale bars: a = 100 μm, b, c = 10 μm.

Importance and distribution

There are eighteen Chaetophoma epithets in Index Fungorum (2022), but six species have been transferred to Chaetasbolisia, Chaetophomella, Cicinnobella, Lasiophoma, Melanops and Phomyces. Chaetophoma comprises twelve species known on a wide range of hosts such as Chamaecyparis thyoides (Cupressaceae), Fraxinus excelsior (Oleaceae), Glycine max (Fabaceae), Metrosideros collina (Myrtaceae), Myrcia tomentosa (Myrtaceae), Phalaris arundinacea (Poaceae), Prunus sp. (Rosaceae), Syngonium auritum (Araceae), and Viburnum awabuki (Caprifoliaceae). Chaetophoma is known from Asia (Japan), Europe (Poland, Ukraine), North America (Mexico, the United States), Oceania (Papua New Guinea) and South America (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay).

 

References

De Gruyter J, Aveskamp MM, Woudenberg JHC, Verkley GJM et al. 2009 – Molecular phylogeny of Phoma and allied anamorph genera: Towards a re-classification of the Phoma complex. Mycological Research 113, 508–519.

Sutton BC. 1980 – The Coelomycetes: Fungi imperfecti with pycnidia, acervular and stromata. Commonwealth Mycological Institute, Kew, Surrey, England.

Wijayawardene NN, Crous PW, Kirk PM, Hawksworth DL et al. 2014 – Naming and outline of Dothideomycetes-2014 including proposals for the protection or suppression of generic names. Fungal diversity 69, 1–55.

Wijayawardene NN, Hyde KD, Wanasinghe DN, Papizadeh M et al. 2016 – Taxonomy and phylogeny of dematiaceous coelomycetes. Fungal Diversity 77, 1–316.

Wijayawardene NN, McKenzie EHC, Hyde KD. 2012 – Towards incorporating anamorphic fungi in a natural classification–checklist and notes for 2011. Mycosphere 3,157–228.

Zhang Y, Crous PW, Schoch CL, Hyde KD. 2012 – Pleosporales. Fungal Diversity 53, 1–221.

 

 

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