''Sporocadus'' 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 ...

plant pathogen Plant diseases are diseases in plants caused by pathogens (infectious organisms) and environmental conditions (physiological factors). Organisms that cause infectious disease include fungi, oomycetes, bacteria, viruses, viroids, virus-like orga ...

s 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 of the family ''Sporocadaceae'' are endophytic, plant pathogenic or

saprobic Saprotrophic nutrition or lysotrophic nutrition is a process of chemoheterotrophic extracellular digestion involved in the processing of decayed (dead or waste) organic matter. It occurs in saprotrophs, and is most often associated with fungi ...

, and associated with a wide range of host plants. ''Sporocadus'' was established by Corda (in 1839) to include four species, but with no mention of the type. Hughes (in 1958) tried to lectotypify ''Sporocadus'' based on ''Sporocadus lichenicola''. The genus was once synonymised under ''Seimatosporium'' by Sutton (in 1975), but was later classified as a distinct genus by Brockman (in 1976) and Nag Raj (in 1993). Liu et al. (2019a) showed that both ''Sporocadus'' and '' Seimatosporium'' are phylogenetically distinct and species in ''Sporocadus'' lack appendages. It is one of the fungal species associated with grapevine trunk diseases in Washington wine grapes and California table grapes in North America, especially ''Sporocadus incarnatus''. Grapevine trunk diseases (GTDs), caused by a complex of fungi (including ''

Inonotus ''Inonotus'' is a genus of fungus, fungi in the family (biology), family Hymenochaetaceae. The genus, described by Petter Karsten in 1879, is estimated to contain about 80 species ''sensu lato'' and 30 species ''sensu stricto'' (in the strict sen ...

'', '' Diatrype'', ''Sporocadus'' and '' Phaeoacremonium'' species), are a global threat to vineyard longevity. Collections of fungal samples from two dead leaf specimens from Italy found that '' Discosia ravennicasp'' and ''Sporocadus rosigena'', two different genera in Xylariomycetidae subclass and Sordariomycetes class had been reported as being new hosts on ''

Quercus ilex ''Quercus ilex'', the holly oak, also (ambiguously, as many oaks are evergreen) evergreen oak, is a large evergreen oak native to the Mediterranean region. It is a member of the section (botany), section ''List of Quercus species#Section Ilex, Il ...

'' in 2021.

Distribution

It has a wide distribution, found in North America, Europe (including Italy,) and New Zealand.

Species

As accepted by

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; *'' Sporocadus acerinus'' *'' Sporocadus biseptatus'' *'' Sporocadus cornicola'' *'' Sporocadus cotini'' *'' Sporocadus dacicus'' *'' Sporocadus incanus'' *'' Sporocadus mali'' *'' Sporocadus microcyclus'' *'' Sporocadus multiseptatus'' *'' Sporocadus populinus'' *'' Sporocadus rosarum'' *''

Sporocadus rosigena ''Sporocadus'' is a genus of plant pathogens in the family Sporocadaceae. Species of the family ''Sporocadaceae'' are endophytic, plant pathogenic or saprobic, and associated with a wide range of host plants. ''Sporocadus'' was established by Co ...

'' *'' Sporocadus rotundatus'' *'' Sporocadus sorbi'' *'' Sporocadus trimerus'' *'' Sporocadus trimorphus'' Former species; * ''S. banksiae'' = '' Cooksonomyces banksiae'',

Ascomycota 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 ...

* ''S. berckmansii'' = '' Seimatosporium berckmansii'', Sporocadaceae * ''S. caninus'' = '' Seimatosporium caninum'', Sporocadaceae * ''S. carpophilus'' = '' Stigmina carpophila'', Mycosphaerellaceae * ''S. cassiopes'' = '' Seimatosporium cassiopes'', Sporocadaceae * ''S. caudata'' = '' Seimatosporium caudatum'', Sporocadaceae * ''S. compactus'' = '' Thyrostroma compactum'',

Botryosphaeriaceae The Botryosphaeriaceae are a family of sac fungi (Ascomycetes), which is the type representative of the order Botryosphaeriales. According to a 2008 estimate, the family contains 26 genera and over 1500 species. Members of this order include not ...

* ''S. corni-albae'' = '' Coryneopsis corni-albae'', Sporocadaceae * ''S. georginae'' = '' Metadiplodia georginae'', Ascomycota * ''S. glandigenus'' = '' Seimatosporium glandigenum'', Sporocadaceae * ''S. herbarum'' = '' Diplodia herbarum'', Botryosphaeriaceae * ''S. lichenicola'' = '' Discostroma corticola'', Sporocadaceae * ''S. longestipitatus'' = '' Coryneum longistipitatum'', Coryneaceae * ''S. macrospermus'' = '' Seimatosporium macrospermum'', Sporocadaceae * ''S. maculans'' = '' Pestalotiopsis maculans'', Pestalotiopsidaceae * ''S. missionus'' = '' Seimatosporium missionum'', Sporocadaceae * ''S. pestalozzioides'' = '' Seimatosporium pestalozzioides'', Sporocadaceae * ''S. pezizoides'' = '' Seimatosporium pezizoides'', Sporocadaceae * ''S. platani'' = '' Pseudocercospora platanigena'', Mycosphaerellaceae * ''S. pyriformis'' = '' Metadiplodia pyriformis'', Ascomycota * ''S. rhododendri'' = '' Seimatosporium rhododendri'', Sporocadaceae * ''S. vaccinii'' = '' Seimatosporium vaccinii'', Sporocadaceae

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q10676342 Amphisphaeriales Taxa named by August Carl Joseph Corda Taxa described in 1839 Sordariomycetes genera