''Pestalotiopsis'' is a

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fungi. ''Pestalotiopsis'' species are known as plant pathogens. The genus name of ''Pestalotiopsis'' is in honour of Fortunato Pestalozza (died 1878), who was an Italian

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. The genus was circumscribed by René Leopold Alix Ghislain Jules Steyaert in Bull. Jard. Bot. Etat. vol.19 on page 300 in 1949. Some members of the genus are able to grow on the synthetic polymer ''

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'' as its sole carbon source under both aerobic and anaerobic conditions, hence show promise as a form of

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for

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. Some members of the genus are able to produce

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Taxonomy

A phylogenetic analysis in 2013 if many of the ''Pestalotiopsis'' species found the following tree:

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Taxonomy

See also

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