Pleospora
Appearance
Pleospora | |
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Pleospora betae spinach | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Dothideomycetes |
Order: | Pleosporales |
Family: | Pleosporaceae |
Genus: | Pleospora Rabenh. ex Ces. & De Not. |
Type species | |
Pleospora herbarum (Pers.) Rabenh. (1857)
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Pleospora is a genus of ascomycete fungi. This genus was originally described by Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst in 1857 and was revised by Wehmeyer and Muller. There are an estimated 63 species.[1]
Selected species
- Pleospora alfalfae
- Pleospora allii, Stemphylium leaf blight
- Pleospora ambigua
- Pleospora bardanae Niessl 1876
- Pleospora betae
- Pleospora bjoerlingii
- Pleospora eturmiuna
- Pleospora gaudefroyi, Patouillard, now in genus Decorospora
- Pleospora gigaspora
- Pleospora gracilariae
- Pleospora halophila
- Pleospora herbarum
- Pleospora iqbalii
- Pleospora lamnaria
- Pleospora leptosphaerulinoides
- Pleospora lycopersici
- Pleospora mullerii
- Pleospora paludiscirpi
- Pleospora papaveracea, possible biocontrol for oriental poppy, now in genus Crivellia.
- Pleospora pelagica
- Pleospora pelvetiae
- Pleospora rubicunda
- Pleospora rudis
- Pleospora sedicola
- Pleospora shepherdiae, attacks dead twigs of Crataegus
- Pleospora spartinae
- Pleospora tarda
- Pleospora theae
- Pleospora tomatonis
- Pleospora triglochinicola
- Pleospora welwitschiae
References
- ^ Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 547. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
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