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| Cordana leaf spot of banana, caused by Cordana musae | |
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| Family: | Cordanaceae |
| Genus: | Cordana |
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Cordana is an ascomycete fungus genus. In 2020, it was placed within the monotypic family of Cordanaceae, and within the order Coniochaetales. [1]
The genus name of Cordana is in honour of August Carl Joseph Corda (1809–1849), who was a Czech physician and mycologist. [2]
The genus was circumscribed by Carl Gottlieb Traugott Preuss in Linnaea Vol.24 on pages 100 and 129 in 1851. [3]
There are about 24 known species; [4]
Former species; [4]