Dothiorella longicollis

Dothiorella longicollis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Dothideomycetes
Order:	Botryosphaeriales
Family:	Botryosphaeriaceae
Genus:	Dothiorella
Species:	D. longicollis
Binomial name
Dothiorella longicollis Pavlic et al. 2008

Dothiorella longicollis is an endophytic fungus that might be a canker pathogen, specifically for Adansonia gibbosa (baobab). It was isolated from said trees, as well as surrounding ones, in the Kimberley (Western Australia). ^[1]

References

1. Pavlic, D.; Wingfield, M. J.; Barber, P.; Slippers, B.; Hardy, G. E. St. J.; Burgess, T. I. (2008). "Seven new species of the Botryosphaeriaceae from baobab and other native trees in Western Australia" (PDF). Mycologia. 100 (6): 851–866. doi:10.3852/08-020. ISSN   0027-5514. PMID   19202840.

Further reading

• Sakalidis, Monique L., Giles E. StJ Hardy, and Treena I. Burgess. "Endophytes as potential pathogens of the baobab species Adansonia gregorii: a focus on the Botryosphaeriaceae." Fungal Ecology 4.1 (2011): 1–14.
• Jami, Fahimeh, et al. "Five new species of the Botryosphaeriaceae from Acacia karroo in South Africa." Cryptogamie, Mycologie 33.3 (2012): 245–266.
• Australia, Western. Draginja Pavlic. Diss. University of Pretoria, 2009.

External links

• MycoBank
• "Dothiorella longicollis". The Encyclopedia of Life .