''Phaeomoniella'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...

hyphomycete Hyphomycetes are a form classification of fungi, part of what has often been referred to as fungi imperfecti, Deuteromycota, or anamorphic fungi. Hyphomycetes lack closed fruit bodies, and are often referred to as moulds (or molds). Most hyphom ...

fungi in the family

Celotheliaceae Celotheliaceae is a family of fungi in the monotypic order Phaeomoniellales. It contains 27 species of crustose lichens with thalli that are more or less immersed in tree bark. Taxonomy The family was proposed in 2008 by Robert Lücking, André ...

. The genus was

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by Pedro Crous and Walter Gams in 2000 to contain the

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, '' P. chlamydospora'', the causal agent of Petro grapevine decline, a disesase in the

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disease complex. ''Phaeomoniella'' is similar to ''

Phaeoacremonium ''Phaeoacremonium'' is a fungus genus associated with wilt and decline diseases of woody hosts and human infections. ''Togninia'' is the teleomorph (the sexual reproductive stage) of ''Phaeoacremonium''. Species * ''Phaeoacremonium aleophilum ...

'', differing in

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characteristics, and in the

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of the conidiophores and

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. The family Phaeomoniellaceae was proposed by Paul Kirk in 2015, using a reference to the description of the order Phaeomoniellales, circumscribed earlier that year. However, because '' Celothelium'' ( type genus of Celotheliaceae, a family published in 2008) is also included in the circumscription of the Phaeomoniellaceae, the older family name takes precedence and consequently, Phaeomoniellaceae is an illegitimate name according to nomenclatural rules.

Species

* ''

Phaeomoniella chlamydospora ''Phaeomoniella chlamydospora'' is a fungus species of mitosporic ascomycota in the genus ''Phaeomoniella''. ''Phaeomoniella chlamydospora'' and ''Phaeoacremonium aleophilum'' are associated with esca (grape disease), esca in mature grapevines, ...

'' * ''

Phaeomoniella pinifoliorum ''Phaeomoniella'' is a genus of hyphomycete fungi in the family Celotheliaceae. The genus was circumscription (taxonomy), circumscribed by Pedro Crous and Walter Gams in 2000 to contain the type species, ''Phaeomoniella chlamydospora, P. c ...

'' Several species once classified in this genus have since been assigned to other genera: *''Phaeomoniella capensis'' , is now '' Paraphaeomoniella capensis'' *''Phaeomoniella dura'' , is now '' Celerioriella dura'' *''Phaeomoniella effusa'' , is now '' Aequabiliella effusa'' *''Phaeomoniella niveniae'' , is now '' Neophaeomoniella niveniae'' *''Phaeomoniella prunicola'' , is now '' Celerioriella prunicola'' *''Phaeomoniella tardicola'' , is now '' Minutiella tardicola'' *''Phaeomoniella zymoides'' , is now '' Neophaeomoniella zymoides''

References

Eurotiomycetes Eurotiomycetes genera Taxa described in 2000 {{Eurotiomycetes-stub