Corallomycetella

Corallomycetella
Corallomycetella elegans
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Phylum: Ascomycota
Class: Sordariomycetes
Subclass: Hypocreomycetidae
Order: Hypocreales
Family: Nectriaceae
Genus: Corallomycetella
Henn. 1904
Type species
Corallomycetella heinsenii
(Henn.) Henn. 1904

Corallomycetella is a genus of ascomycete fungi in the family Nectriaceae.[1][2][3] Species of Corallomycetella are tropical, and are characterized by the formation of brightly colored rhizomorphs of their rhizostilbella-like asexual morphs.[4][2] These fungi causes a number of plant diseases including 'violet root rot' of Theobroma cacao, root rot of Carica papaya, and 'stinking root disease' of several tropical woody plants.[5] Two species of Corallomycetella are recognized: Corallomycetella elegans (Berk. and M.A. Curtis) C. Herrera & P. Chaverri and Corallomycetella repens (Berk. & Broome) Rossman & Samuels.[2] Corallomycetella jatrophae is now classified under Corallonectria.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Rossman, Amy Y.; Samuels, G.J.; Rogerson, C.T.; Lowen, R. (1999). "Genera of Bionectriaceae, Hypocreaceae and Nectriaceae (Hypocreales, Ascomycetes)". Studies in Mycology 42 (1): 1–248. doi:10.5598/imafungus.2013.04.01.05. PMC 3719205. PMID 23898411.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Herrera, Cesar S.; Rossman, Amy Y.; Samuels, G.J.; Lechat, Christian; Chaverri, P. (2013). "Revision of the genus Corallomycetella with Corallonectria gen. nov. for C. jatrophae (Nectriaceae, Hypocreales)". Mycosystema 32: 518–544.
  3. ↑ Lombard, L; van der Merwe, N.A.; Groenewald, J.Z.; Crous, P.W. (2015). "Generic concepts in Nectriaceae". Studies in Mycology 80: 189–245. doi:10.1016/j.simyco.2014.12.002.
  4. ↑ Seifert, K.A. (1985). "A monograph of Stilbella and some allied Hyphomycetes". Studies in Mycology 27: 1–224.
  5. ↑ Booth, C; Holliday, P (1973). "Sphaerostilbe repens". C.M.I. descriptions of pathogenic fungi and bacteria 391: 1–2.

External links

Corallomycetella in Index Fungorum

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