''Monochaetia'' is a
genus
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of
fungi
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in the family
Sporocadaceae
The Sporocadaceae are a family of fungi, that was formerly in the order Xylariales. It was placed in the Amphisphaeriales order in 2020.
Species of ''Sporocadaceae'' are endophytic (living with a plant), plant pathogenic (causing disease) or ...
.
Species in the genus are typically plant
parasites
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and
saprobe
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s, and cause
leaf spot
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diseases on various
hosts
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Host may also refer to:
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.
The genus ''Monochaetia'' was introduced by Allescher in 1902, it had 23 species originally. Allescher (1902) also designated the type as ''Monochaetia monochaeta'', which has a single apical appendage (Guba 1961; Maharachch. et al. 2014; Senanayake et al. 2015).
Steyaert (in 1949) transferred numerous ''Monochaetia'' species to ''
Pestalotiopsis
''Pestalotiopsis'' is a genus of ascomycete fungi in the Sporocadaceae family.
Taxonomy
The genus was circumscription (taxonomy), circumscribed by René Leopold Alix Ghislain Jules Steyaert in Bull. Jard. Bot. Etat. vol.19 on page 300 in 1949.
T ...
'' or ''
Truncatella''. More than 40 species of ''Monochaetia'' were recognised by the monograph of Guba (1961). There are 127 ''Monochaetia'' epithets in the Index Fungorum (as of 31 March 2022) and most have been transferred to other genera such as ''
Sarcostroma'', ''
Seimatosporium
Seimatosporium is a fungus genus within the family Sporocadaceae.
They are saprobic or pathogenic on plants, and are called 'pestalotioid fungi'. ''Seimatosporium physocarpi'' was found in Russia on the dead branches of ''Physocarpus opulifolius' ...
'' and ''
Seiridium
''Seiridium'' is a genus of plant pathogens in the family Sporocadaceae.
The genus '' Lepteutypa'' is teleomorphic (reproducing sexually) and the corresponding anamorphic name, used to describe the asexual form, is ''Seiridium'' (formerly ''Co ...
'' (Nag Raj 1993; Maharachch. et al. 2011, 2014, 2016).
Species
As accepted by
Species Fungorum
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;
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Monochaetia breviformis''
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Monochaetia caffra''
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Monochaetia camelliae''
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Monochaetia carissae''
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Monochaetia caryotae''
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Monochaetia castaneae''
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Monochaetia compta''
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Monochaetia concentrica''
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Monochaetia cornicola''
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Monochaetia cryptomeriae''
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Monochaetia curtisii''
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Monochaetia cycadis''
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Monochaetia dalbergiae''
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Monochaetia dimorphospora''
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Monochaetia diospyri''
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Monochaetia elaeocarpi''
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Monochaetia garciniae''
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Monochaetia hirta''
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Monochaetia hysteriiformis''
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Monochaetia ilicina''
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Monochaetia ilicis''
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Monochaetia jabalpurensis''
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Monochaetia junipericola''
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Monochaetia karstenii''
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Monochaetia lentisci''
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Monochaetia mangiferae''
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Monochaetia massachusettsianum''
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Monochaetia monochaeta''
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Monochaetia nodosporella''
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Monochaetia osyridella''
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Monochaetia pachyspora''
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Monochaetia punicae''
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Monochaetia quercus''
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Monochaetia rhododendricola''
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Monochaetia rosenwaldii''
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Monochaetia rubi''
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Monochaetia russeliae''
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Monochaetia sabinae''
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Monochaetia saccardoi''
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Monochaetia salaccae''
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Monochaetia schini''
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Monochaetia seiridioides''
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Monochaetia sinensis''
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Monochaetia taphrinicola''
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Monochaetia vernoniae''
References
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Amphisphaeriales
Taxa named by Pier Andrea Saccardo
Sordariomycetes genera