Fungalpedia – Note 2123, Castanedospora
Castanedospora. G. Delgado & A.N. Mill.
Citation when using this data: Hongsanan S et al. 2020 – Fungalpedia, Ascomycota.
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Classification: Incertae sedis, Capnodiales, Dothideomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi
Notes – The monotypic genus Castanedospora was introduced by Delgado et al. (2018) to accommodate Sporidesmium pachyanthicola. It is characterized by cylindrical and brown conidiophores without percurrent extensions and long narrowly obclavate or subcylindrical, mutiseptate conidia with rounded apex and truncate base (Delgado et al. 2018). Sporidesmium pachyanthicola was historically assigned in Teratosphaeriaceae (Arzanlou et al. 2007). However, combined ITS and LSU sequence data indicated that this species belongs to Extremaceae (Delgado et al. 2018).
Type species: Castanedospora pachyanthicola (R.F. Castañeda & W.B. Kendr.) G. Delgado & A.N. Mill., Cryptogamie Mycologie 39 (1): 118 (2018).
≡ Sporidesmium pachyanthicola R.F. Castañeda & W.B. Kendr., University of Waterloo Biology Series 33: 45 (1990).
Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Castanedospora.
References
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 23 March 2026