Pestalosphaeria

Pestalosphaeria
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Ascomycetes
Order:	Xylariales
Family:	Pestalotiopsidaceae
Genus:	Pestalosphaeria; M.E. Barr
Type species
	Pestalosphaeria concentrica; M.E. Barr

Pestalosphaeria is a genus of fungi in the family Pestalotiopsidaceae.

The morphological characters of Pestalosphaeria comprise cylindrical asci with a J+ apical apparatus, ascospores uniseriate in the ascus, three cells, ellipsoid, and a pale dull brown color.^[1]

The genus name of Pestalosphaeria is in honour of Fortunato Pestalozza (died 1878), who was an Italian botanist and doctor who worked in Constantinople and Antalya.^[2]

The genus was circumscribed by Margaret Elizabeth Barr-Bigelow in Mycologia vol.67 on page 188 in 1975.

Species

As accepted by Species Fungorum;^[3]

Pestalosphaeria accidenta P.L. Zhu, Q.X. Ge & T. Xu (1991)
Pestalosphaeria alpiniae P.K. Chi & S.Q. Chen (1994)
Pestalosphaeria austroamericana Nag Raj & DiCosmo (1979)
Pestalosphaeria hansenii Shoemaker & J.A. Simpson (1981)
Pestalosphaeria leucospermi Samuels, E. Müll. & Petrini (1987)

Former species

Pestalosphaeria concentrica M.E. Barr (1975) = Pestalotiopsis guepinii); Pestalotiopsidaceae
Pestalosphaeria elaeidis (C. Booth & J.S. Robertson) Aa (1976) = Pseudopestalotiopsis elaeidis); Pestalotiopsidaceae
Pestalosphaeria eugeniae P.K. Chi & S.M. Lin (1994) = Pestalotiopsis eugeniae); Pestalotiopsidaceae
Pestalosphaeria gubae Tak. Kobay., Ishihara & Yas. Ono (2001) = Pestalotiopsis neglecta); Pestalotiopsidaceae
Pestalosphaeria jinggangensis P.L. Zhu, T. Xu & Q.X. Ge (1990) = Pestalotiopsis podocarpi); Pestalotiopsidaceae
Pestalosphaeria maculiformans Marinc., M.J. Wingf. & Crous (2008) = Pestalotiopsis maculiformans); Pestalotiopsidaceae
Pestalosphaeria varia Nag Raj (1985) = Pestalotiopsis besseyi); Pestalotiopsidaceae

References

^ Shunsuke Nozawa, Kaoru Yamaguchi, Le Thi Hoang Yen, Duong Van Hop, Nyunt Phay, Katsuhiko Ando, Kyoko Watanabe, Identification of two new species and a sexual morph from the genus Pseudopestalotiopsis, Mycoscience, 2017, ISSN 1340-3540
^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. S2CID 246307410. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
^ "Search Page - Pestalosphaeria". www.speciesfungorum.org. Species Fungorum. Retrieved 8 September 2022.

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[1] Shunsuke Nozawa, Kaoru Yamaguchi, Le Thi Hoang Yen, Duong Van Hop, Nyunt Phay, Katsuhiko Ando, Kyoko Watanabe, Identification of two new species and a sexual morph from the genus Pseudopestalotiopsis, Mycoscience, 2017, ISSN 1340-3540

[2] Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. S2CID 246307410. Retrieved January 27, 2022.

[3] "Search Page - Pestalosphaeria". www.speciesfungorum.org. Species Fungorum. Retrieved 8 September 2022.

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