Fungalpedia – Note 906, Aureobasidium
Aureobasidium. Viala & G. Boyer.
Citation when using this data Manawasinghe IS et al. 2022 (in prep.) – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.
Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank., Fig 1
Classification: Saccotheciaceae, Dothideales, Dothideomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Aureobasidium is typified by A. pullulans (Schoch et al. 2006, Thambugala et al. 2014). The genus typically forms aseptate, dark and also sometimes hyaline conidia. Members of this genus are parasitic or saprobic on a wide range of plants, fruits and cause human skin diseases (Thambugala et al. 2014a, van Nieuwenhuijzen et al. 2016).
Type species: Aureobasidium vitis Viala & G. Boyer, Rev. gén. Bot. 3: 371 (1891).
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Aureobasidium.
Figure 1 – Aureobasidium melanogenum (ZHKU 21-0099, new host record). a–c Appearance of ascomata on dead wood. d Section through an ascoma. e Peridium. f Hamathecium. g–j Asci. k–p Ascospores. Scale bars: d–j = 50 μm, k–p = 20 μm.
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Entry by
Ishara Sandeepani Manawasinghe, Innovative Institute for Plant Health, Zhongkai University of Agriculture and Engineering, Guangzhou 510225, PR of China
Published online 25 April 2022