''Peyronellaea'' is a
genus
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of
fungi
A fungus ( : fungi or funguses) is any member of the group of eukaryotic organisms that includes microorganisms such as yeasts and molds, as well as the more familiar mushrooms. These organisms are classified as a kingdom, separately from ...
in the family
Didymellaceae
The Didymellaceae are a family of fungi in the order Pleosporales. The have a world-wide distribution.
Recent phylogenetic examination of some of the larger genera of the Pleosporales, particularly ''Phoma'', has led to considerable reorganisati ...
. It contains a number of
plant pathogens.
The genus name of ''Peyronellaea'' is in honour of Beniamino Peyronel (1890-1975), who was an Italian
botanist (Mycology and Lichenology) from the
University of Turin
The University of Turin (Italian language, Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Torino'', UNITO) is a public university, public research university in the city of Turin, in the Piedmont (Italy), Piedmont region of Italy. It is one of the List ...
.
The genus was
circumscribed
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Not every polyg ...
by
Gabriele Goidànich in Atti Accad. Naz. Lincei, Rendiconti Cl. Sci. Fis. Mat. Nat.
ser.8, vol.1 on page 450 in 1946.
Taxonomy
Following a
phylogenetic
In biology, phylogenetics (; from Greek φυλή/ φῦλον [] "tribe, clan, race", and wikt:γενετικός, γενετικός [] "origin, source, birth") is the study of the evolutionary history and relationships among or within groups o ...
analysis of the
asexual genus ''
Phoma
''Phoma'' is a genus of common coelomycetous soil fungi. It contains many plant pathogenic species.
Description
Spores are colorless and unicellular. The pycnidia are black and depressed in the tissues of the host. ''Phoma'' is arbitrarily li ...
'', section ''Peyronellaea'' was raised to the rank of genus. It contains many of the
chlamydospore
A chlamydospore is the thick-walled large resting spore of several kinds of fungi, including Ascomycota such as '' Candida'', Basidiomycota such as '' Panus'', and various Mortierellales species. It is the life-stage which survives in unfavourable ...
forming species of that genus, from both section ''Peyronellaea'' and other sections.
Species include:
* ''
Peyronellaea alectorolophi''
* ''
Peyronellaea americana''
* ''
Peyronellaea arachidicola''
* ''
Peyronellaea aurea''
* ''
Peyronellaea australis''
* ''
Peyronellaea calorpreferens''
* ''
Peyronellaea coffeae-arabicae
''Peyronellaea'' is a genus of fungi in the family Didymellaceae. It contains a number of plant pathogens.
The genus name of ''Peyronellaea'' is in honour of Beniamino Peyronel (1890-1975), who was an Italian botanist (Mycology and Lichenology ...
''
* ''
Peyronellaea curtisii''
* ''
Peyronellaea eucalyptica''
References
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Pleosporales
Dothideomycetes genera
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