''Colletotrichum somersetense'' is a morphologically cryptic species described by J.A Crouch in 2014. This species belongs to ''

Colletotrichum caudatum ''Colletotrichum'' (sexual stage: ''Glomerella'') is a genus of fungi that are symbionts to plants as endophytes (living within the plant) or phytopathogens. Many of the species in this genus are plant pathogens, but some species may have a mutu ...

sensu lato'' and is a pathogen on warm-season grasses (''

Sorghastrum nutans ''Sorghastrum nutans'', commonly known as either Indiangrass or yellow Indiangrass, is a North American prairie grass found in the central and eastern United States and Canada, especially in the Great Plains and tallgrass prairies. Descriptio ...

''). Presence of a unique filiform appendage at the apex of the

conidium A conidium ( ; ), sometimes termed an asexual chlamydospore or chlamydoconidium (), is an asexual, non-motile spore of a fungus. The word ''conidium'' comes from the Ancient Greek word for dust, ('). They are also called mitospores due to th ...

is the distinctive morphological character.Jo Anne Crouch (2014)''Colletotrichum caudatum s.l.'' is a species complex. IMA Fungus.5: 17–30.

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Phyllachorales Fungi described in 2014 {{Phyllachorales-stub