Cercidospora Explained

Cercidospora is a genus of fungi in the class Dothideomycetes. The relationship of this taxon to other taxa within the class is unknown (incertae sedis).^[1] The genus was first described by Gustav Wilhelm Körber in 1865; it is synonymous with the name Prolisea described by Frederick Edward Clements in 1931.^[2]

Species

The genus contains 36 accepted species:

• Cercidospora alpina
• Cercidospora anomala
• Cercidospora arthroraphidicola
• Cercidospora barrenoana
• Cercidospora cecidiiformans
• Cercidospora cladoniicola
• Cercidospora crozalsiana
• Cercidospora decolorella
• Cercidospora epicarphinea
• Cercidospora epipolytropa
• Cercidospora epithamnolia
• Cercidospora exiguella
• Cercidospora galligena
• Cercidospora harknessii
• Cercidospora hypotrachynicola
• Cercidospora lecidomae
• Cercidospora lobothalliae
• Cercidospora macrospora
• Cercidospora melanophthalmae
• Cercidospora ochrolechiae
• Cercidospora parva
• Cercidospora punctilla
• Cercidospora punctillata
• Cercidospora rinodinae
• Cercidospora santessonii
• Cercidospora solearispora
• Cercidospora soror
• Cercidospora stenotropae
• Cercidospora stereocaulorum
• Cercidospora thamnogalloides
• Cercidospora thamnoliae
• Cercidospora thamnoliicola
• Cercidospora trypetheliza
• Cercidospora verrucosaria
• Cercidospora werneri
• Cercidospora xanthoriae

See also

• List of Dothideomycetes genera incertae sedis

External links

• Cercidospora at Index Fungorum

Notes and References

1. Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. . December 2007 . Outline of Ascomycota – 2007 . Myconet . 13 . 1–58 . The Field Museum, Department of Botany . Chicago, USA . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090318003134/http://www.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp . 2009-03-18 .
2. Book: Clements FE, SHear CL. The Genera of Fungi. 2nd Ed. 1931. 1–496.