Rhytisma

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Rhytisma
Rhytisma acerinum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Subdivision: Pezizomycotina
Class: Leotiomycetes
Order: Rhytismatales
Family: Rhytismataceae
Genus: Rhytisma
Fr. (1818)
Type species
Rhytisma acerinum
(Pers.) Fr. (1818)

Rhytisma is a genus of fungi in the Rhytismataceae family[1] commonly known as 'tar spot'. There are about 18 species,[2] which live parasitically in the leaves of deciduous trees.

Species

  • Rhytisma acerinum
  • Rhytisma americanum
  • Rhytisma andromedae
  • Rhytisma anhuiense
  • Rhytisma asteris
  • Rhytisma decolorans
  • Rhytisma eucalypti
  • Rhytisma himalense
  • Rhytisma huangshanense
  • Rhytisma ilicis-canadensis
  • Rhytisma ilicis-integrae
  • Rhytisma ilicis-latifoliae
  • Rhytisma ilicis-pedunculosae
  • Rhytisma itatiaiae
  • Rhytisma lagerstroemiae
  • Rhytisma panamense
  • Rhytisma prini
  • Rhytisma priscum
  • Rhytisma punctatum
  • Rhytisma salicinum
  • Rhytisma umbonatum
  • Rhytisma velatum
  • Rhytisma vitis
  • Rhytisma yuexiense

References

  1. Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet (The Field Museum, Department of Botany, Chicago, USA) 13: 1–58. 
  2. Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 602. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8. 

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