Piedraia hortae

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Piedraia hortae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Dothideomycetes
Order:	Capnodiales
Family:	Piedraiaceae
Genus:	Piedraia
Species:	P. hortae
Binomial name
*Piedraia hortae* (Brumpt) Fonseca & Leão (1928)
Synonyms^[1]
Trichosporon hortae Brumpt (1913) Trichosporon guayo Delamare & Gatti (1928) Piedraia javanica Boedijn & Verbunt (1938) Piedraia malayi Green & Mankikar (1950) Piedraia sarmentoi M.J.Pereira (1929) Trichosporon sarmentoi (Pereira) Nann. (1934) Piedraia surinamensis C.W.Dodge (1935) Piedraia venezuelensis Brumpt & Langeron (1934)

Piedraia hortae is a species fungus in the family Piedraiaceae. It is the cause of black piedra.^[2]

References [edit]

^ "Piedraia hortae (Brumpt) Fonseca & Leão 1928". MycoBank. International Mycological Association. Retrieved 2011-01-15.
^ Schwartz RA. (2004). "Superficial fungal infections". Lancet 364 (9440): 1173–82. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(04)17107-9. PMID 15451228.

By location	Tinea barbae/Tinea capitis (Kerion) · Tinea corporis (Ringworm, Dermatophytid) · Tinea cruris · Tinea manuum · Tinea pedis (Athlete's foot) · Tinea unguium/Onychomycosis (White superficial onychomycosis · Distal subungual onychomycosis · Proximal subungual onychomycosis) Tinea corporis gladiatorum · Tinea faciei · Tinea imbricata · Tinea incognito · Favus

By organism	Epidermophyton floccosum · Microsporum canis · Microsporum audouinii · Trichophyton interdigitale/mentagrophytes · Trichophyton tonsurans · Trichophyton schoenleini · Trichophyton rubrum

Other

Hortaea werneckii (Tinea nigra) · Piedraia hortae (Black piedra)

Dimorphic
(yeast+mold)

Onygenales	Coccidioides immitis/Coccidioides posadasii (Coccidioidomycosis, Disseminated coccidioidomycosis, Primary cutaneous coccidioidomycosis. Primary pulmonary coccidioidomycosis) · Histoplasma capsulatum (Histoplasmosis, Primary cutaneous histoplasmosis, Primary pulmonary histoplasmosis, Progressive disseminated histoplasmosis) · Histoplasma duboisii (African histoplasmosis) · Lacazia loboi (Lobomycosis) · Paracoccidioides brasiliensis (Paracoccidioidomycosis)

Other	Blastomyces dermatitidis (Blastomycosis, North American blastomycosis, South American blastomycosis) · Sporothrix schenckii (Sporotrichosis) · Penicillium marneffei (Penicilliosis)

Mold-like

Aspergillus (Aspergillosis, Aspergilloma, Allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis, Primary cutaneous aspergillosis) · Exophiala jeanselmei (Eumycetoma) · Fonsecaea pedrosoi/Fonsecaea compacta/Phialophora verrucosa (Chromoblastomycosis) · Geotrichum candidum (Geotrichosis) · Pseudallescheria boydii (Allescheriasis)

Cryptococcus neoformans (Cryptococcosis), Trichosporon spp (Trichosporonosis)

Mucorales (Mucormycosis)	Rhizopus oryzae · Mucor indicus · Absidia corymbifera · Syncephalastrum racemosum

Entomophthorales (Entomophthoramycosis)	Basidiobolus ranarum (Basidiobolomycosis) · Conidiobolus coronatus/Conidiobolus incongruus (Conidiobolomycosis)