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Microdochium

Microdochium is a genus of ascomycete fungi, which contains several plant pathogens. The teleomorph is Monographella. The genus was circumscribed by German mycologist Hans Sydow in 1924.

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Microdochium
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Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Sordariomycetes
Order: Amphisphaeriales
Family: Amphisphaeriaceae
Genus: Microdochium
Syd. (1924)
Type species
Microdochium phragmitis
Syd. 1924

Microdochium is a genus of ascomycete fungi, which contains several plant pathogens. The teleomorph is Monographella. The genus was circumscribed by German mycologist Hans Sydow in 1924.1

Species

As accepted by GBIF;2

  • Microdochium albescens (Thüm.) Hern.-Restr. & Crous, as Monographella albescens
  • Microdochium bolleyi (R.Sprague) de Hoog & Herm.-Nijh.
  • Microdochium caespitosum B.Sutton, Piroz. & Deighton, affects leaves of Eucalyptus deglupta
  • Microdochium chrysanthemoides Z.F.Zhang, F.Liu & L.Cai
  • Microdochium citrinidiscum Hern.-Restr. & Crous
  • Microdochium colombiense Hern.-Restr. & Crous
  • Microdochium consociatum (Rehm) Hern.-Restr. & Crous
  • Microdochium cylindricum B.Sutton & Hodges, affects leaves of Eucalyptus camaldulensis
  • Microdochium fisheri Hern.-Restr. & Crous
  • Microdochium fusariisporum (Ellis & Everh.) Hern.-Restr. & Crous
  • Microdochium griseum B.Sutton, Piroz. & Deighton, affects leaves of Eucalyptus sideroxylon
  • Microdochium intermedium (Matsush.) de Hoog & Herm.-Nijh.
  • Microdochium linariae Săvul.
  • Microdochium lycopodinum (Jaklitsch, Siepe & Voglmayr) Hern.-Restr. & Crous
  • Microdochium majus (Wollenw.) Glynn & S.G.Edwards
  • Microdochium maydis (E.Müll. & Samuels) Hern.-Restr. & Crous
  • Microdochium nivale (Fr.) Samuels & I.C.Hallett, as Monographella nivalis var. nivalis, Pink snow.
  • Microdochium novae-zelandiae, Hern.-Restr., Thangavel & Crous
  • Microdochium opuntiae (Ellis & Everh.) Hern.-Restr. & Crous
  • Microdochium palmicola Hol.-Jech. & Mercado
  • Microdochium panattonianum (Berl.) B.Sutton, Galea & T.V.Price
  • Microdochium paspali Wu Zhang bis, Nan & Mei J.Hu
  • Microdochium passiflorae Samuels, E.Müll. & Petrini
  • Microdochium phragmitis Syd. & P.Syd.
  • Microdochium phyllanthi B.Sutton, Piroz. & Deighton
  • Microdochium punctum (Davis) U.Braun
  • Microdochium queenslandicum Matsush.
  • Microdochium rhopalostylidis Crous & R.Thangavel
  • Microdochium sclerotiorum Mouch. & Samson
  • Microdochium seminicola Hern.-Restr., Seifert, R.M.Clear & B.Dorn
  • Microdochium stevensonii (Petr.) Hern.-Restr. & Crous
  • Microdochium stoveri (C.Booth) Samuels & I.C.Hallett
  • Microdochium tainanense (Ts.Watan.) de Hoog & Herm.-Nijh.
  • Microdochium trichocladiopsis Hern.-Restr. & Crous
  • Microdochium triticicola Kwaśna & G.L.Bateman

Note Microdochium dimerum is now a synonym for Bisifusarium dimerum (Penz.) L.Lombard & Crous3

References

References

  1. Sydow H. (1924). "Mycotheca Germanica Fasc. XLII-XLV (no. 2051–2250)". Annales Mycologici. 22 (306): 257–68.
  2. "Microdochium". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
  3. "Microdochium dimerum (Penz.) Arx". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 11 August 2022.