Pestalosphaeria is a genus of fungi in the family Pestalotiopsidaceae.

Pestalosphaeria
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Pestalosphaeria

M.E. Barr
Type species
Pestalosphaeria concentrica
M.E. Barr

The morphological characters of Pestalosphaeria comprise cylindrical asci with a J+ apical apparatus, ascospores uniseriate in the ascus, three cells, ellipsoid, and a pale dull brown color.[1]

The genus name of Pestalosphaeria is in honour of Fortunato Pestalozza (died 1878), who was an Italian botanist and doctor who worked in Constantinople and Antalya.[2]

The genus was circumscribed by Margaret Elizabeth Barr-Bigelow in Mycologia vol.67 on page 188 in 1975.

Species

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As accepted by Species Fungorum;[3]

  • Pestalosphaeria accidenta P.L. Zhu, Q.X. Ge & T. Xu (1991)
  • Pestalosphaeria alpiniae P.K. Chi & S.Q. Chen (1994)
  • Pestalosphaeria austroamericana Nag Raj & DiCosmo (1979)
  • Pestalosphaeria hansenii Shoemaker & J.A. Simpson (1981)
  • Pestalosphaeria leucospermi Samuels, E. Müll. & Petrini (1987)

Former species

  • Pestalosphaeria concentrica M.E. Barr (1975) = Pestalotiopsis guepinii); Pestalotiopsidaceae
  • Pestalosphaeria elaeidis (C. Booth & J.S. Robertson) Aa (1976) = Pseudopestalotiopsis elaeidis); Pestalotiopsidaceae
  • Pestalosphaeria eugeniae P.K. Chi & S.M. Lin (1994) = Pestalotiopsis eugeniae); Pestalotiopsidaceae
  • Pestalosphaeria gubae Tak. Kobay., Ishihara & Yas. Ono (2001) = Pestalotiopsis neglecta); Pestalotiopsidaceae
  • Pestalosphaeria jinggangensis P.L. Zhu, T. Xu & Q.X. Ge (1990) = Pestalotiopsis podocarpi); Pestalotiopsidaceae
  • Pestalosphaeria maculiformans Marinc., M.J. Wingf. & Crous (2008) = Pestalotiopsis maculiformans); Pestalotiopsidaceae
  • Pestalosphaeria varia Nag Raj (1985) = Pestalotiopsis besseyi); Pestalotiopsidaceae

References

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  1. ^ Shunsuke Nozawa, Kaoru Yamaguchi, Le Thi Hoang Yen, Duong Van Hop, Nyunt Phay, Katsuhiko Ando, Kyoko Watanabe, Identification of two new species and a sexual morph from the genus Pseudopestalotiopsis, Mycoscience, 2017, ISSN 1340-3540
  2. ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. S2CID 246307410. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  3. ^ "Search Page - Pestalosphaeria". www.speciesfungorum.org. Species Fungorum. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
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