Fungalpedia – Note 2312, Paracamarosporium

 

Paracamarosporium. Wijayaw. & K.D. Hyde.

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

Index Fungorum, Facesoffungi, MycoBank, GenBank

Classification: Didymosphaeriaceae, Pleosporales, Pleosporomycetidae, Dothideomycetes, Pezizomycotina, Ascomycota, Fungi

 

Notes – Wijayawardene et al. (2014c) introduced Paracamarosporium to accommodate Camarosporium psoraleae. Subsequently, Crous et al. (2015b) added Microdiplodia hawaiiensis (Paracamarosporium hawaiiense), Camarosporium leucadendri (Paracamarosporium leucadendri and Paracamarosporium fagi to the genus. Later, Wijayawardene et al. (2016b) introduced Paracamarosporium fungicola which was previously known as Paraconiothyrium fungicola and P. tamaricis introduced by Thambugala et al. (2017a). Paracamarosporium mamanes was introduced by Crous & Groenewald (2017). There are seven Paracamarosporium epithets in Species Fungorum (2020). Both Paracamarosporium and Pseudocamarosporium have pycnidial conidiomata, enteroblastic and phialidic conidiogenesis with percurrent proliferation and muriform conidia (Wijayawardene et al. 2014c). However, Paracamarosporium is distinct from the latter in having hyaline, smooth-walled, guttulate, bacilliform to subcylindrical microconidia (Wijayawardene et al. 2014c).

 

Type species: aracamarosporium psoraleae (Crous & M.J. Wingf.) Wijayaw. & K.D. Hyde, Cryptog. Mycol. 35(2): 185 (2014).

≡ Camarosporium psoraleae Crous & M.J. Wingf., in Crous et al., Persoonia 31: 235 (2013).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Paracamarosporium.

 

References

Crous PW, Schumacher RK, Wingfield MJ, Lombard et al. 2015b – Fungal Systematics and Evolution: FUSE 1. Sydowia 67, 81–118.

Species Fungorum. 2020 – http://www.speciesfungorum.org/Index.htm

Thambugala KM, Daranagama DA, Phillips AJL, Bulgakov TS et al. 2017a – Microfungi on Tamarix. Fungal Diversity 82, 239–306.

Wijayawardene NN, Hyde KD, Bhat DJ, Camporesi E et al. 2014c – Camarosporium-like species are polyphyletic in Pleosporales; introducing Paracamarosporium and Pseudocamarosporium gen. nov. in Montagnulaceae. Cryptogamie Mycologie 35, 177–198.

Wijayawardene NN, Hyde KD, Bhat DJ, Camporesi E et al. 2014c – Camarosporium-like species are polyphyletic in Pleosporales; introducing Paracamarosporium and Pseudocamarosporium gen. nov. in Montagnulaceae. Cryptogamie Mycologie 35, 177–198.

Wijayawardene NN, Tibpromma S, Hyde KD, An YL, Camporesi E, Wang Y. 2016b – Additions to Pseudocamarosporium; two new species from Italy. Studies in Fungi 1, 1–10.

 

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 9 April 2026

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