Fungalpedia – Note 2277, Elsinoe

 

Elsinoe Racib

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

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank, Fig. 1

Classification: Elsinoaceae, Myriangiales, Dothideomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

Elsinoe is the type genus of Elsinoeaceae, and it was established by Raciborski (1900) with descriptions of three species (E. canavaliae, E. antidesmae and E. meninspermacearum). This genus is an important phytopathogen, causing scab diseases on economically important plants (Hyde et al. 2013, Jayawardena et al. 2014, Fan et al. 2017). Sphaceloma de Bary is the asexual morph of Elsinoe. Fan et al. (2017) and Jayawardena et al. (2019) reconstructed the backbone phylogeny of this genus based on ITS, LSU, rpb-2 and tef1. Jayawardena et al. (2019) provided background information to this genus as well as disease symptoms, distribution, hosts, morphology and best genes to identify to the species level.

Type species: Elsinoe canavaliae Racib.

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Elsinoe.

 

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Figure 1 – Elsinoë canavaliae (S F66900, isotype). a Herbarium material. b Pseudoascostromata on host substrate. c Section of pseudoascostroma. d Asci with eight irregularly arranged ascospores. e Ascus stained with cotton blue reagent. f Fissitunicate dehicnese of the ascus. g Section of conidiomata. h Phialidic conidiogenous cells and conidia of Sphaceloma ampelinum material redrawn from Sutton & Pollok (1973). Scale bars: c, g = 100 μm, d–f, h = 10 μm.

 

References

Fan XL, Barreto RW, Groenewald JZ, Bezerra JDP et al. 2017 – Phylogeny and taxonomy of the scab and spot anthracnose fungus Elsinoë (Myriangiales, Dothideomycetes). Studies in Mycology 87, 1–41.

Hyde KD, Jones EBG, Liu J-K, Ariyawansa H et al. 2013 – Families of Dothideomycetes. Fungal Diversity 63, 1–313.

Jayawardena RS, Ariyawansa HA, Singtripop C, Li YM et al. 2014 – A re-assessment of Elsinoaceae (Myriangiales, Dothideomycetes). Phytotaxa 176, 120–138.

Jayawardena RS, Hyde KD, Jeewon R, Ghobad-Nejhad M et al. 2019 – One stop shop II: taxonomic update with molecular phylogeny for important phytopathogenic genera: 26–50 (2019). Fungal Diversity 94, 41–129.

Raciborski M. 1900 – Batavia, Indonesia, Staatsdruckerei. Parasitische Algen und Pilze Javas 1, 1–39.

Sutton BC, Pollok FG. 1973 – Gleosporium cercocarpi and Sphaceloma cercocarpi. Mycologia 65, 1128.

 

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 10 April 2026

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