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Apiosporina collinsii

Apiosporina collinsii (Schwein.) Höhn., Sber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Math. -naturw. Kl., Abt. 1 119: 439 (1910).

≡ Sphaeria collinsii Schwein., Trans. Am. phil. Soc., New Series 4(2): 211 (1832) [1834].

Index Fungorum number: IF 122234; Facesoffungi number: FoF 06355, Fig. 1

Description: see Sivanesan (1984); Zhang et al. (2011).

Material considered: see Sivanesan (1984); Zhang et al. (2011).

Fig. 1 Apiosporina collinsii (collections from M., re-drawn from Fig. 55 in Schubert et al. 2003). a Conidia. b Conidiophores. c Base of conidiophore arising from superficial hyphae. Scale bar = 10 μm.

Importance and distribution

Apiosporina is the causal agent of black knot in Prunus virginiana and other Prunus species in North America (Canada, the United States). Infection by Apiosporina causes losses in the plum growing regions (Zhang et al. 2005). Apiosporina is of quarantine significance and considered as a pest of concern by EPSA (2018). Apiosporina is listed in Annex IIAI of Directive 2000/29/EC. There are six Apiosporina epithets in Index Fungorum (2022), but three species have been transferred to Basiseptospora, Lasiostemma and Pseudomassaria. Apiosporina comprises three species known on Amelanchier (Rosaceae), Ceanothus sp. (Rhamnaceae), Cotoneaster sp. (Rosaceae), Harungana (Hypericaceae), Prunus emarginata (Rosaceae) and Pyrus sp. (Rosaceae).

References

Barr ME – The Venturiaceae in North America. Canadian Journal of Botany 46, 799–864.

Braun U, Crous PW, Dugan FM, Groenewald JZ, Hoog GS de. 2003 – Phylogeny and taxonomy of cladosporium-like hyphomycetes, including Davidiella gen. nov., the teleomorph of Cladosporium s. str. Mycological Progress 2, 3–18.

Crous PW, Mohammed C, Glen M, Verkley GJM, Groenewald JZ. 2007 – Eucalyptus microfungi known from culture. 3. Eucasphaeria and Sympoventuria genera nova, and new species of Furcaspora, Harknessia, Heteroconium and Phacidiella. Fungal Diversity 25, 19–36.

Schubert K, Rischel A, Braun U. 2003 – A monograph of Fusicladium s. lat. (hyphomycetes). Schlechtendalia 9,1–132.

Sivanesan A. 1984 – The bitunicate ascomycetes and their anamorphs. J. Cramer, Vaduz, p 701.

von Arx JA, Müller E. 1975 – A re-evaluation of the bitunicate Ascomycetes with keys to families and genera. Studies in Mycology 9, 1–159.

Winton LM, Stone JK, Hansen EM, Shoemaker RA. 2007 – The systematic position of Phaeocryptopus gaeumannii. Mycologia 99, 240–252.

Zhang JX, Fernando WGD, Remphrey WR. 2005 – Molecular Detection of Apiosporina morbosa, Causal Agent of Black Knot in Prunus virginiana. Plant Disease 89, 815–821. doi: 10.1094/PD-89-0815. PMID: 30786511.

Zhang Y, Crous PW, Schoch CL, Bahkar AH, Guo LD, Hyde KD. 2011 – A molecular, morphological and ecological re-appraisal of Venturiales—a new order of Dothideomycetes. Fungal Diversity 51, 249–277.

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