''Celoporthe'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
ascomycete
Ascomycota is a phylum of the kingdom Fungi that, together with the Basidiomycota, forms the subkingdom Dikarya. Its members are commonly known as the sac fungi or ascomycetes. It is the largest phylum of Fungi, with over 64,000 species. The def ...
fungus, fungi within the family Cryphonectriaceae. It was circumscribed in 2006 to contain the type species ''Celoporthe dispersa'', which was found in South Africa growing on trees in the Myrtales.
In 2011, several species were described from China and Indonesia: ''Celoporthe eucalypti, C. eucalypti'', ''Celoporthe guangdongensis, C. guangdongensis'', ''Celoporthe indonesiensis, C. indonesiensis'', and ''Celoporthe syzygii, C. syzygii''.
Molecular phylogenetics, Molecular analysis of DNA sequences revealed an additional two species from South Africa in 2013, ''Celoporthe fontana, C. fontana'' and ''Celoporthe woodiana, C. woodiana''
and in 2020 three more species from Hawaii were added to the genus.
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Sordariomycetes genera
Diaporthales
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