Distocercospora is a genus of plant-pathogenic fungi in the family Mycosphaerellaceae. The genus was circumscribed in 1988 with Distocercospora pachyderma as the type species in 1988.[1]
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| Genus: | Distocercospora N.Pons & B.Sutton (1988)
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| Distocercospora pachyderma | |
They are distributed on the islands of Japan, Micronesia and Polynesia.[2]
Species
editAs accepted by Species Fungorum;[3]
- Distocercospora africana Crous & U. Braun (1994)
- Distocercospora indica N.K. Verma & A.N. Rai (2014)
- Distocercospora pachyderma (Syd. & P. Syd.) N. Pons & B. Sutton (1988)
Former species,
- D. livistonae U. Braun & C.F. Hill (2006) = Exosporium livistonicola, Ascomycota
References
edit- ^ Pons N, Sutton BC. (1988). "Cercospora and similar fungi on yams (Dioscorea spp.)". Mycological Papers. 160: 60.
- ^ "Distocercospora N.Pons & B.Sutton, 1988". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 8 July 2023.
- ^ "Species Fungorum - Search Page". www.speciesfungorum.org. Retrieved 8 July 2023.