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[[File:Guignardia_citricarpa_IPM1263092.jpg|250px|thumb|''Phyllosticta citricarpa'' symptoms on orange fruit (click on image to enlarge it)<br/>Author(s): P. Barkley, Biological and Chemical Research Institute<br/>Source: [http://www.ipmimages.org/browse/detail.cfm?imgnum=1263092 IPM Images]]]
<font color="#800000">'''''Phyllosticta'''''</font> Pers. 1818

This genus contains more than 100 species of plant pathogenic and endophytic fungi. Several are important pathogens of crops and cause leaf spot, leaf blotch, black spot and rot diseases. For example ''[[Phyllosticta citricarpa]]'' causes black spot on citrus and ''[[Phyllosticta ampelicida]]'' causes black rot of grapevine.

The species of the genus are characterized by producing simple, brown and thin-walled conidiomata which form round to oval, hyaline and unicellular conidia. The spores are surrounded by a thin sticky sheath and have an apical appendage. The teleomorph forms of ''Phyllosticta'' have been described under the genera ''Guignardia'' and ''Leptodothiorella''.

Type species: ''Phyllosticta cruenta''

For a taxonomic review of the genus see [[Studies in Mycology (2019) 92, 47-133|Hernández-Restrepo et al. (2018)]].


Currently, the following species have been entered into the system:<br />
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