Drechslera

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Drechslera
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Drechslera under a microscope
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Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Dothideomycetes
Order: Pleosporales
Family: Pleosporaceae
Genus: Drechslera
S.Ito 1930 [1]
Species

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Drechslera is a genus of fungi. Many of the species in this genus are plant pathogens. [2] Several species of Drechslera are known to cause a fungal disease of turfgrass known as Drechslera leaf spot. [3]

Species

The following species are accepted within Drechslera: [4]

References

  1. Proc. Imp. Acad. Japan 6: 355 (1930)
  2. Sun, B.-D.; Zhang, T.-Y. (2004). "One new species and two new Chinese records of Drechslera". Mycosystema. 23 (1): 20–23.
  3. Dicklow, B. (2016, October 26). Leaf Spot Diseases of Turf. Retrieved from https://ag.umass.edu/turf/fact-sheets/leaf-spot-diseases-of-turf.
  4. Drechslera S.Ito in GBIF Secretariat (2017). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via https://www.gbif.org/species/2587966 on 2018-08-02.