Fusicoccum ramosum

Fusicoccum ramosum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Dothideomycetes
Order:	Botryosphaeriales
Family:	Botryosphaeriaceae
Genus:	Fusicoccum
Species:	F. ramosum
Binomial name
Fusicoccum ramosum Pavlic et al., 2008

Fusicoccum ramosum 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. S2CID   5883161.

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.
• Slippers, B., et al. "A diverse assemblage of Botryosphaeriaceae infect Eucalyptus in native and non-native environments." Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science 71.2 (2009): 101–110.
• Abdollahzadeh, Jafar, Rasoul Zare, and Alan JL Phillips. "Phylogeny and taxonomy of Botryosphaeria and Neofusicoccum species in Iran, with description of Botryosphaeria scharifii sp. Nov." Mycologia 105.1 (2013): 210–220.

External links

• MycoBank
• "Fusicoccum ramosum". The Encyclopedia of Life .