Fungalpedia – Note 1260, Araucasphaeria

 

Araucasphaeria Crous & M.J. Wingf.

Citation when using this data: Hongsanan S et al. 2020 – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.

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Classification: Teratosphaeriaceae, Mycosphaerellales, Dothideomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

Crous et al. (2018c) introduced this genus since it is morphologically and phylogenetically distinct from Mycosphaerella araucariae (which has larger ascomata, asci and ascospores) and Pseudoteratosphaeria (‘ascomata aggregated in a stroma, ostioles that are lined with hyaline, branched, septate periphysoids, and ascospores encased in a prominent mucoid sheath’ fide Quaedvlieg et al. 2014). The genus is represented by only the sexual morph. See description and illustration in Crous et al. (2018c).

Type species: Araucasphaeria foliorum Crous & M.J. Wingf., Persoonia 40: 335 (2018).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Araucasphaeria.

 

References

Crous PW, Wingfield MJ, Burgess TI, Hardy GESJ et al. 2018c – Fungal Planet description sheets: 716–784. Persoonia 40, 240–393.

Quaedvlieg W, Binder M, Groenewald JZ, Summerell BA et al. 2014 – Introducing the consolidated species concept to resolve species in the Teratosphaeriaceae. Persoonia 33, 1–40.

 

Entry by

Sinang Hongsanan, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory for Plant Epigenetics, Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Microbial Genetic Engineering, College of Life Science and Oceanography, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, People’s Republic of China, Center of Excellence in Fungal Research, Mae Fah Luang University, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Faculty of Agriculture, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai 50002, Thailand 

 

Published online 6 April 2026

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