Fungalpedia – Note 2138, Ramichloridium

 

Ramichloridium. Stahel ex de Hoog.

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

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

 

Notes – The genus is characterized by aseptate, pale brown, smooth-walled to finely verrucose, clavate or oblong to ellipsoid, or obovate to obconical conidia. Ramichloridium species have diverse lifestyles and can be saprobes, endophytes, human and plant pathogens (Arzanlou et al. 2007, Zheng et al. 2020). Marin-Felix et al. (2019) accepted only five species in Ramichloridium, i.e. R. apiculatum, R. cucurbitae, R. luteum, R. mali and R. punctatum. Zheng et al. (2020) introduced a new endophytic species, R. endophyticum, and provided a morphological comparison with similar species.

 

Type species: Ramichloridium apiculatum (J.H. Mill., Giddens & A.A. Foster) de Hoog, Studies in Mycology 15: 69 (1977).

≡ Chloridium apiculatum J.H. Mill., Giddens & A.A. Foster, Mycologia 49(6): 789 (1957).

Other accepted species: Species Fungorum – search Ramichloridium.

 

References

Arzanlou M, Groenewald JZ, Gams W, Braun U et al. 2007 – Phylogenetic and morphotaxonomic revision of Ramichloridium and allied genera. Studies in Mycology 58, 57–93.

Marin-Felix Y, Hernández-Restrepo M, Iturrieta-González I, García D et al. 2019 – Genera of phytopathogenic fungi: GOPHY 3. Studies in Mycology 94, 1–124.

Zheng H, Yu ZF, Xu JP, Castañeda-Ruiz RF, Qiao M. 2020 – Ramichloridium endophyticum sp. nov., a novel species of endophytic fungus from Potamogeton pectinatus. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 7, :3433–3439

 

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 

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