Gliocladium | |
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Pink rot of areca palm (Chrysalidocarpus lutescens) caused by Gliocladium vermoeseni | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Sordariomycetes |
Order: | Hypocreales |
Family: | Hypocreaceae |
Genus: | Gliocladium Corda, 1840 |
Species | |
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Gliocladium[1] is an asexual fungal genus in the Hypocreaceae. Certain other species including Gliocladium virens were recently transferred to the genus Trichoderma[2] and G. roseum became Clonostachys rosea f. rosea in the Bionectriaceae. Gliocladium is a mitosporic, filamentous fungus. Species of Gliocladium rarely produce a sexual state.[3] Most pathogenic, disease-causing fungi in humans are mitosporic like Gliocladium.[3] Gliocladium is filamentous; it grows tubular, elongated, and thread-like.[4] It can be considered a contaminant.
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