Sporocadus Mali

''Sporocadus'' is a genus of plant pathogens in the family Sporocadaceae.

Species of the family ''Sporocadaceae'' are endophytic, plant pathogenic or saprobic, and associated with a wide range of host plants.

''Sporocadus'' was established by Corda (in 1839) to include four species, but with no mention of the type. Hughes (in 1958) tried to lectotypify ''Sporocadus'' based on ''Sporocadus lichenicola''. The genus was once synonymised under ''Seimatosporium'' by Sutton (in 1975), but was later classified as a distinct genus by Brockman (in 1976) and Nag Raj (in 1993). Liu et al. (2019a) showed that both ''Sporocadus'' and ''Seimatosporium'' are phylogenetically distinct and species in ''Sporocadus'' lack appendages.

It is one of the fungal species associated with grapevine trunk diseases in Washington wine grapes and California table grapes in North America, especially ''Sporocadus incarnatus''.
Grapevine trunk diseases (GTDs), caused by a complex of fungi (including '' Inonotus'', ''Diatrype, ''Sporocadus'' and ''Phaeoacremonium'' species), are a global threat to vineyard longevity.

Collections of fungal samples from two dead leaf specimens from Italy found that ''Discosia ravennicasp'' and ''Sporocadus rosigena'', two different genera in Xylariomycetidae subclass and Sordariomycetes class had been reported as being new hosts on ''Quercus ilex'' in 2021.

Distribution

It has a wide distribution, found in North America, Europe (including Italy,) and New Zealand.

Species

As accepted by Species Fungorum;

*''Sporocadus acerinus''
*'' Sporocadus biseptatus''
*''Sporocadus cornicola''
*'' Sporocadus cotini''
*'' Sporocadus dacicus''
*'' Sporocadus incanus''
*'' Sporocadus mali''
*''Sporocadus microcyclus''
*''Sporocadus multiseptatus''
*''Sporocadus populinus''
*''Sporocadus rosarum''
*'' Sporocadus rosigena''
*'' Sporocadus rotundatus''
*'' Sporocadus sorbi''
*'' Sporocadus trimerus''
*'' Sporocadus trimorphus''

Former species;
* ''S. banksiae'' = '' Cooksonomyces banksiae'', Ascomycota
* ''S. berckmansii'' = '' Seimatosporium berckmansii'', Sporocadaceae
* ''S. caninus'' = '' Seimatosporium caninum'', Sporocadaceae
* ''S. carpophilus'' = '' Stigmina carpophila'', Mycosphaerellaceae
* ''S. cassiopes'' = '' Seimatosporium cassiopes'', Sporocadaceae
* ''S. caudata'' = '' Seimatosporium caudatum'', Sporocadaceae
* ''S. compactus'' = '' Thyrostroma compactum'', Botryosphaeriaceae
* ''S. corni-albae'' = '' Coryneopsis corni-albae'', Sporocadaceae
* ''S. georginae'' = '' Metadiplodia georginae'', Ascomycota
* ''S. glandigenus'' = '' Seimatosporium glandigenum'', Sporocadaceae
* ''S. herbarum'' = ''Diplodia herbarum'', Botryosphaeriaceae
* ''S. lichenicola'' = '' Discostroma corticola'', Sporocadaceae
* ''S. longestipitatus'' = '' Coryneum longistipitatum'', Coryneaceae
* ''S. macrospermus'' = '' Seimatosporium macrospermum'', Sporocadaceae
* ''S. maculans'' = '' Pestalotiopsis maculans'', Pestalotiopsidaceae
* ''S. missionus'' = '' Seimatosporium missionum'', Sporocadaceae
* ''S. pestalozzioides'' = '' Seimatosporium pestalozzioides'', Sporocadaceae
* ''S. pezizoides'' = '' Seimatosporium pezizoides'', Sporocadaceae
* ''S. platani'' = '' Pseudocercospora platanigena'', Mycosphaerellaceae
* ''S. pyriformis'' = '' Metadiplodia pyriformis'', Ascomycota
* ''S. rhododendri'' = ''Seimatosporium rhododendri'', Sporocadaceae
* ''S. vaccinii'' = '' Seimatosporium vaccinii'', Sporocadaceae

References

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Amphisphaeriales
Taxa named by August Carl Joseph Corda
Taxa described in 1839
Sordariomycetes genera