Pestalosphaeria

Pestalosphaeria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Sordariomycetes
Order:	Amphisphaeriales
Family:	Amphisphaeriaceae
Genus:	Pestalosphaeria; M.E. Barr
Type species
	Pestalosphaeria concentrica; M.E. Barr

Pestalosphaeria is a genus of fungi in the family Amphisphaeriaceae.

The morphological characters of Pestalosphaeria comprise cylindrical asci with a J+ apical apparatus, ascospores uniseriate in the ascus, three cells, ellipsoid, and a pale dull brown color.

The genus name of Pestalosphaeria is in honour of Fortunato Pestalozza (died 1878), who was an Italian botanist and doctor who worked in Constantinople and Antalya.

The genus was circumscribed by Margaret Elizabeth Barr-Bigelow in Mycologia vol.67 on page 188 in 1975.

Species

As accepted by Species Fungorum;

Pestalosphaeria accidenta P.L. Zhu, Q.X. Ge & T. Xu (1991)
Pestalosphaeria alpiniae P.K. Chi & S.Q. Chen (1994)
Pestalosphaeria austroamericana Nag Raj & DiCosmo (1979)
Pestalosphaeria hansenii Shoemaker & J.A. Simpson (1981)
Pestalosphaeria leucospermi Samuels, E. Müll. & Petrini (1987)

Former species

Pestalosphaeria concentrica M.E. Barr (1975) = Pestalotiopsis guepinii); Pestalotiopsidaceae
Pestalosphaeria elaeidis (C. Booth & J.S. Robertson) Aa (1976) = Pseudopestalotiopsis elaeidis); Pestalotiopsidaceae
Pestalosphaeria eugeniae P.K. Chi & S.M. Lin (1994) = Pestalotiopsis eugeniae); Pestalotiopsidaceae
Pestalosphaeria gubae Tak. Kobay., Ishihara & Yas. Ono (2001) = Pestalotiopsis neglecta); Pestalotiopsidaceae
Pestalosphaeria jinggangensis P.L. Zhu, T. Xu & Q.X. Ge (1990) = Pestalotiopsis podocarpi); Pestalotiopsidaceae
Pestalosphaeria maculiformans Marinc., M.J. Wingf. & Crous (2008) = Pestalotiopsis maculiformans); Pestalotiopsidaceae
Pestalosphaeria varia Nag Raj (1985) = Pestalotiopsis besseyi); Pestalotiopsidaceae

References

↑ Shunsuke Nozawa, Kaoru Yamaguchi, Le Thi Hoang Yen, Duong Van Hop, Nyunt Phay, Katsuhiko Ando, Kyoko Watanabe, Identification of two new species and a sexual morph from the genus Pseudopestalotiopsis, Mycoscience, 2017, ISSN 1340-3540
↑ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. S2CID 246307410. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
↑ "Search Page - Pestalosphaeria". www.speciesfungorum.org. Species Fungorum. Retrieved 8 September 2022.

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[1] Shunsuke Nozawa, Kaoru Yamaguchi, Le Thi Hoang Yen, Duong Van Hop, Nyunt Phay, Katsuhiko Ando, Kyoko Watanabe, Identification of two new species and a sexual morph from the genus Pseudopestalotiopsis, Mycoscience, 2017, ISSN 1340-3540

[2] Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. S2CID 246307410. Retrieved January 27, 2022.

[3] "Search Page - Pestalosphaeria". www.speciesfungorum.org. Species Fungorum. Retrieved 8 September 2022.