Gliocladium

Gliocladium
Pink rot of areca palm ("Chrysalidocarpus lutescens") caused by "Gliocladium vermoeseni"
Pink rot of areca palm (Chrysalidocarpus lutescens) caused by Gliocladium vermoeseni
Scientific classification Edit this 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.

  1. ^ Corda (1840) Icon. fung. (Prague) 4: 30.
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