Parafusicladium amoenum
Parafusicladium amoenum (R.F. Castañeda & Dugan) Crous, M. Shen & Y. Zhang ter, in Shen et al., Stud. Mycol. 96: 206 (2020).
≡ Anungitopsis amoena R.F. Castañeda & Dugan, in Ho et al., Mycotaxon 72: 118 (1999).
Index Fungorum number: IF 831544; Facesoffungi number: FoF 12044, Fig. 1
Description: see Ho et al. (1999); Crous et al. (2007, 2016).
Material considered: see Ho et al. (1999); Crous et al. (2007, 2016).
Fig. 1 Parafusicladium amoenum (culture ex-type CBS 254.95, re-drawn from Fig. 7 in Shen et al. 2020). a Colony on OA. b–e Conidiophores reduced to sympodial conidiogenous cells. f Conidia. Scale bars = 10 μm.
Importance and distribution
Parafusicladium comprises three species known on Eucalyptus species (Myrtaceae) in Asia (Sri Lanka), Australia (Victoria) and Caribbean (Cuba).
References
Crous PW, Schubert K, Braun U, de Hoog GS, Hocking AD, Shin HD, Groenewald JZ. 2007 – Opportunistic, human-pathogenic species in the Herpotrichiellaceae are phenotypically similar to saprobic or phytopathogenic species in the Venturiaceae. Studies in Mycology 58, 185–217. doi: 10.3114/sim.2007
Crous PW, Wingfield MJ, Richardson DM, Le Roux JJ et al. 2016 – Fungal Planet description sheets: 400–468. Persoonia 36, 316–458.
Ho MHM, Castañeda RF, Dugan FM, Jong SC. 1999 – Cladosporium and Cladophialophora in culture: descriptions and an expanded key. Mycotaxon 72, 115–157.
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