Plagiostoma (fungus)

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Plagiostoma
Plagiostoma populinum (10.3897-mycokeys.69.54012) Figure 6.jpg
Plagiostoma populinum
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Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Sordariomycetes
Order: Diaporthales
Family: Gnomoniaceae
Genus: Plagiostoma
Fuckel [1]
Type species
Plagiostoma euphorbiae
(Fuckel) Fuckel

Plagiostoma is a genus of parasitic ascomycete fungi within the family Gnomoniaceae, whose members cause leaf spot diseases in various plant hosts. [2] [3] The genus contains around 22 species. [4]

References

  1. Fuckel L. (1870). "Symbolae mycologicae. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der rheinischen Pilze". Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde (in German). 23–24: 118.
  2. Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota 2007". Myconet. 13. Chicago, USA: The Field Museum, Department of Botany: 1–58.
  3. Yang, Qin; Jiang, Ning; Tian, Cheng-Ming (2020). "Tree inhabiting gnomoniaceous species from China, With cryphogonomonia gen. nov. Proposed". MycoKeys (69): 71–89. doi: 10.3897/mycokeys.69.54012 . PMC   7367894 . PMID   32733150.
  4. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford: CABI. p. 541. ISBN   978-0-85199-826-8.