Dothidea

Dothidea
Dothidea puccinioides
Dothidea puccinioides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Dothideomycetes
Order: Dothideales
Family: Dothideaceae
Genus: Dothidea
Fr., 1818
Type species
Dothidea sambuci
(Pers.) Fr. ,1823

Dothidea is a genus of fungi belonging to the family Dothideaceae. The genus was first described in 1818 by Elias Magnus Fries. The type species is Dothidea sambuci.

The genus has almost cosmopolitan distribution.

Species

As accepted by Species Fungorum;

Species Fungorum lists up to 387 records of Dothidea species, but only the above list have stayed as Dothidea, the rest have been moved to various families and genera.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Mycobank: Dothidea". www.mycobank.org. Retrieved 22 April 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Fries, E.M. (1818). Observationes mycologicae. Vol. 2. p. 347.
  3. 1 2 3 "Dothidea". Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 21 April 2021.
  4. 1 2 "Dothidea - Search Page". www.speciesfungorum.org. Species Fungorum. Retrieved 27 October 2022.