''Cercidospora'' is a
genus
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of
fungi
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in the class
Dothideomycetes
Dothideomycetes is the largest and most diverse class of ascomycete fungi. It comprises 11 orders 90 families, 1,300 genera and over 19,000 known species.
Wijayawardene et al. in 2020 added more orders to the class.
Traditionally, most of it ...
. The relationship of this
taxon
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to other taxa within the class is unknown (''
incertae sedis
or is a term used for a taxonomy (biology), taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or undefined. Alternatively, such groups are frequently referred to as "enigmatic taxa". In the system of open nomenclature, uncertainty ...
''). The genus was first described by
Gustav Wilhelm Körber
Gustav Wilhelm Körber (10 January 1817, Jelenia Góra, Hirschberg – 27 January 1885, Breslau) was a Silesian-German lichenologist and a professor at the University of Wrocław, University of Breslau. He specialized in the flora of Central Europ ...
in 1865; it is
synonymous
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with the name ''Prolisea'' described by Frederick Edward Clements in 1931.
Species
The genus contains 36 accepted species:
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Cercidospora alpina''
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Cercidospora anomala''
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Cercidospora arthroraphidicola''
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Cercidospora barrenoana''
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Cercidospora cecidiiformans''
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Cercidospora cladoniicola''
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Cercidospora crozalsiana''
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Cercidospora decolorella''
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Cercidospora epicarphinea''
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Cercidospora epipolytropa''
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Cercidospora epithamnolia''
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Cercidospora exiguella''
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Cercidospora galligena''
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Cercidospora harknessii''
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Cercidospora hypotrachynicola''
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Cercidospora lecidomae''
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Cercidospora lobothalliae''
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Cercidospora macrospora''
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Cercidospora melanophthalmae''
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Cercidospora ochrolechiae''
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Cercidospora parva''
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Cercidospora punctilla''
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Cercidospora punctillata''
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Cercidospora rinodinae''
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Cercidospora santessonii''
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Cercidospora solearispora''
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Cercidospora soror''
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Cercidospora stenotropae''
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Cercidospora stereocaulorum''
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Cercidospora thamnogalloides''
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Cercidospora thamnoliae''
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Cercidospora thamnoliicola''
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Cercidospora trypetheliza''
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Cercidospora verrucosaria''
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Cercidospora werneri''
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Cercidospora xanthoriae''
See also
*
List of Dothideomycetes genera ''incertae sedis''
References
External links
*
Cercidospora' at
Index Fungorum
''Index Fungorum'' is an international project to index all formal names (scientific names) in the fungus kingdom. As of 2015, the project is based at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, one of three partners along with Landcare Research and th ...
Enigmatic Dothideomycetes taxa
Dothideomycetes genera
Lichenicolous fungi
Taxa named by Gustav Wilhelm Körber
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