''Peyronellaea'' is a
genus
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of
fungi
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in the family
Didymellaceae. It contains a number of
plant pathogen
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s.
The genus name of ''Peyronellaea'' is in honour of Beniamino Peyronel (1890-1975), who was an Italian
botanist
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(Mycology and Lichenology) from the
University of Turin
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.
The genus was
circumscribed In geometry, a circumscribed circle for a set of points is a circle passing through each of them. Such a circle is said to ''circumscribe'' the points or a polygon formed from them; such a polygon is said to be ''inscribed'' in the circle.
* Circum ...
by
Gabriele Goidànich in Atti Accad. Naz. Lincei, Rendiconti Cl. Sci. Fis. Mat. Nat.
ser.8, vol.1 on page 450 in 1946.
Taxonomy
Following a
phylogenetic
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analysis of the
asexual
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**Asexual reproduction in starfish
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**Gray asexuality, the spectrum between asexualit ...
genus ''
Phoma'', section ''Peyronellaea'' was raised to the rank of genus. It contains many of the
chlamydospore
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forming species of that genus, from both section ''Peyronellaea'' and other sections.
Species as accepted by
Species Fungorum
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;
* ''
Peyronellaea calorpreferens''
(Boerema, Gruyter & Noordel.) Aveskamp, Gruyter & Verkley (2010)
* ''
Peyronellaea cincta''
(Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Goid. (1952)
* ''
Peyronellaea consors''
(Schulzer & Sacc.) Goid. (1952)
* ''
Peyronellaea eucalyptica''
(Sacc.) Aveskamp, Gruyter & Verkley (2010)
* ''
Peyronellaea fictilis''
(Delacr.) Goid. (1952)
* ''
Peyronellaea lethalis''
(Ellis & Barthol.) Aveskamp, Gruyter & Verkley (2010)
* ''
Peyronellaea nainiensis''
* ''
Peyronellaea nicotiae''
* ''
Peyronellaea nigricans''
* ''
Peyronellaea obtusa''
* ''
Peyronellaea pruni-avium''
(Allesch.) Goid. (1952)
* ''
Peyronellaea ruptilis''
Kusnezowa (1971)
* ''
Peyronellaea sibirica''
Kusnezowa (1971)
* ''
Peyronellaea stemphylioides''
* ''
Peyronellaea veronensis''
* ''
Peyronellaea zhdanovae''
References
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Pleosporales
Dothideomycetes genera
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