Thecaphora

Thecaphora was also proposed for the order of cnidarians usually known as Leptomedusae.

Thecaphora
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Basidiomycota
Class: Ustilaginomycetes
Order: Urocystidales
Family: Glomosporiaceae
Genus: Thecaphora
Fingerh. (1836)
Type species
Thecaphora hyalina
Fingerh. (1836)
Synonyms[1]

Angiosorus Thirum. & M.J.O'Brien (1974)
Glomosporium Kochman (1939)
Kochmania Piatek (2005)
Poikilosporium Dietel (1897)
Sorosporium F.Rudolphi (1829)
Tothiella Vánky (1999)

Thecaphora is a genus of basidiomycote fungus which contains several species of plant pathogens. The widespread genus contained about 57 species in 2008.[2] and held 61 species in 2020.[3]

In 2008, genus Glomosporium and Kochmania were declared synonyms of Thecaphora.[4] Also Sorosporium mohgaoense Chitaley & Yawale became Thecaphora mohgaoensis (Chitaley & Yawale) R.K. Saxena, Wijayaw., D.Q. Dai, K.D. Hyde & P.M. Kirk.[3]

The genus Thecaphora contains plant-parasitic microfungi infecting hosts belonging to a range of dicotyledonous families. The species and their current nomenclature were summarised by Vánky et al. (2008),[4] and Vánky (2012).[5] Recently, three new species were described in Crous et al. (2018),[6] Kruse et al. (2018),[7] and Piątek et al. (2021).[8] Thecaphora species are characterised by having spores in balls (or rarely single), generally without sterile cells, and infections are found in a range of different organs of their host plants.[9]

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  4. ^ a b Vánky, Kálmán; Lutz, Matthias; Bauer, Robert (2008). "About the genus Thecaphora (Glomosporiaceae) and its new synonyms". Mycological Progress. 7: 31–39. doi:10.1007/s11557-007-0550-0.
  5. ^ Vánky, K. (2012). Smut Fungi of the World. St Paul, MN., USA: American Phytopathological Society Press.
  6. ^ Crous, et al. (2018). "Fungal Planet description sheets: 716–784". Persoonia. 40: 240–393. doi:10.3767/persoonia.2018.40.10. PMC 6146637. PMID 30505003.
  7. ^ Kruse, J.; Kummer, V.; Shivas, R. G.; Thines, M. (2018). "The first smut fungus, Thecaphora anthemidis sp. nov. (Glomosporiaceae), described from Anthemis (Asteraceae)". MycoKeys (41): 39–50. doi:10.3897/mycokeys.41.28454. PMC 6194141. PMID 30344443.
  8. ^ Piątek, Marcin; Lutz, Matthias; Wang, Yan; Wang, Shengrong; Kellner, Ronny (August 2021). "Thecaphora dahuangis, a new species causing leaf smut disease of the traditional medicinal plant dahuang (Rheum palmatum) in China". Plant Pathology. 70 (6): 1292–1299. doi:10.1111/ppa.13385.
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