Medeolaria Thaxt., Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 57(17): 432 (1922) The genus Medeolaria belongs to the family Medeolariaceae (Medeolariales, Leotiomycetes, Ascomycota). Medeolaria was introduced by Thaxter (1921) and typified with Medeolaria farlowii. Medeolaria species are pathogens of Medeola virginiana (Liliaceae). Currently, the known distribution of...
Macrophomina Petr., Annls mycol. 21: 314 (1923) Species of Macrophomina are mostly pathogens that cause damping-off, seedling blight, collar rot, stem rot, charcoal rot, basal stem rot and root rot in many plant species (Arora et al. 2001; Pal et al. 2001; Gupta et al. 2002;...
Eutiarosporella Crous, in Crous et al., Phytotaxa 202(2): 85 (2015) Eutiarosporella was introduced by Crous et al. (2015) and is typified by Eutiarosporella tritici (B. Sutton & Marasas) Crous on Triticum aestivum from South Africa. The genus was named on account of its similarity to Tiarosporella...
Entoleuca Syd., Annls mycol. 20(3/4):186 (1922) The genus Entoleuca Syd. (Xylariaceae) consists of saprobic and plant pathogenic species distributed in Europe. Entoleuca mammata causes canker diseases (commonly known as Hypoxylon canker) on Malus sp. (Rosaceae), Populus sp., Salix sp. (Salicaceae) and Sorbus sp. (Rosaceae) (Shaw 1973;...
Dactylonectria L. Lombard & Crous, in Lombard et al., Phytopath. Mediterr. 53(3): 523 (2014) The genus Dactylonectria was introduced by Lombard et al. (2014) for a group of species which were previously treated in Ilyonectria (Chaverri et al. 2011; Cabral et al. 2012a, b, c). In...
Cyttaria Berk., Trans. Linn. Soc. London 19:40 (1842) This genus is geographically restricted to South America (Argentina and Chile) and Southeastern Australasia (including Tasmania, and New Zealand) (Peterson and Pfister 2010). Cyttaria species are found in the secondary phloem and xylem, cambium and cortex of the...
Cyphellophora G.A. de Vries, Mycopath. Mycol. appl. 16(1):47(1962) Cyphellophora is cosmopolitan, comprising species distributed from a broad range of environmental sources as human and animal disease, saprobes, epiphytes and plant pathogens (de Hoog et al. 1999, 2000; Jacob and Bhat 2000; Decock et al. 2003; Crous...
Cytospora Ehrenb., Sylv. mycol. berol.: 28 (1818) Cytospora was introduced by Ehrenberg (1818) as the type genus of the family Cytosporaceae in Diaporthales (Wehmeyer 1975; Barr 1978; Eriksson 2001; Castlebury et al. 2002). The genus is an important pathogenic fungus, causing canker and dieback on branches...
Chaetothyrina Theiss., Annls mycol. 11(6):495 (1913) The genus Chaetothyrina was established by Theissen (1913), with C. musarum (Speg.) Theiss. as the type species. Chaetothyrina was placed in Micropeltidaceae based on its superficial, flattened base, poorly developed thyriothecium and irregular meandering arrangement of compact hyphae of walled...
Capnodium Mont., Annls Sci. Nat., Bot, sér. 3, 11: 233 (1849) The genus Capnodium was introduced by Montagne (1849) to accommodate C. salicinum. Capnodium is one of the most commonly found sooty molds in gardens and landscapes (Laemmlen 2011). Capnodium has a saprobic association with sap-feeding...
Dothiorella Sacc., Michelia 2(6): 5 (1880) Dothiorella was proposed by Saccardo to accommodate D. pyrenophora (Hyde et al. 2014). Members of this genus are pathogens, endophytes and saprobes (Phillips et al. 2013; Dissanayake et al. 2016). Taxonomy of this genus has been in a state of...
Fusarium Link, Mag. Gesell. naturf. Freunde, Berlin 3(1-2): 10 (1809) Fusarium is a genus with 20 monophyletic species complexes (Rana et al. 2017). Species formerly belonged to F. solani species complex were transferred to genus Neocosmospora based on sexual morph characters and molecular phylogeny (Lombard et...
Lasiodiplodia Ellis & Everh., Bot. Gaz. 21:92 (1896) According to Clendenin (1896), a fungus causing rot of sweet potatoes imported from Java was identified by Ellis in 1894 as a new genus and he named the fungus Lasiodiplodia tubericola. However, Ellis (1894) did not describe the...
Pestalotiopsis Steyaert, Bull. Jard. bot. État Brux. 19: 300 (1949) Pestalotiopsis is an appendage-bearing, 5-celled conidia (asexual coelomycetes) in the family Sporocadaceae (Maharachchikumbura et al. 2014a, b; Jayawardena et al. 2016). The genus was introduced by Steyaert (1949). Pestalotiopsis species are widely distributed throughout tropical and...
Stagonosporopsis Died. emend. Aveskamp et al., Stud. Mycol. 65: 44. 2010 Stagonosporopsis is a coelomycetous genus in the family Didymellaceae (de Gruyter et al. 2013), accommodating several important phytopathogenic species. Some of the species have described sexual forms in Didymella (Diedicke 1912; Aveskamp et al. 2010)....
Verticillium Nees, Syst. Pilze (Würzburg): 57 (1816) [1816-17] The genus Verticillium Nees was introduced by Nees von Esenbeck (1816) for a single saprotrophic species, V. tenerum Nees, which was proposed as the type species. Zare et al. (2004) synonymized V. tenerum under Acrostalagmus luteoalbus (Link) Zare,...
Phyllosticta Pers., Traité champ. (Paris): 55, 147 (1818) Background Phyllosticta is an important coelomycetous genus of plant pathogens known to cause diseases in a wide range of host plants worldwide. Examples include citrus black spot, black rot of grapevines and banana freckle, which cause severe economic damage...
Neofusicoccum Crous, Slippers & A.J.L. Phillips, Stud. Mycol. 55: 247 (2006) Background When Crous et al. (2006) split Botryosphaeria into ten distinct genera they introduced Neofusicoccum for species morphologically similar to, but phylogenetically distinct from Botryosphaeria sensu lato. Despite the similar morphology, Crous et al. (2006) considered...
Curvularia Boedijn, Bull. Jard. Bot. Buitenzorg, 3 Sér. 13: 123 (1933) For synonyms see Index Fungorum (2018) Background The cosmopolitan Curvularia consists of pathogens and saprobes of various plants, as well as opportunistic pathogens of humans and animals. They are abundantly found as the pathogens of family Poaceae...
Botryosphaeria Ces. & De Not., Comm. Soc. crittog. Ital. 1(fasc. 4): 211 (1863) Background The genus Botryosphaeria (Botryosphaeriaceae) was introduced by Cesati and de Notaris (1863), revised by Saccardo (1877) and is based on the type species Botryosphaeria dothidea (Barr 1972; Slippers et al. 2004c). This genus...
