Cladosporium (anamorphic genus)
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Author(s): Y. Marin-Felix, J.Z. Groenewald, L. Cai, Q. Chen, S. Marincowitz, I. Barnes, K. Bensch, U. Braun, E. Camporesi, U. Damm, Z.W. de Beer, A. Dissanayake, J. Edwards, A. Giraldo, M. Hernández-Restrepo, K. D. Hyde, R. S. Jayawardena, L. Lombard and P.W. Crous
Source: Studies in Mycology (2017), vol. 86, p. 131
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This genus of fungi has a world-wide distribution and contains several plant pathogenic fungi but also saprobic species which might cause moulds on stored products and in buildings. Further, some have been isolated from human infections. The plant pathogens cause diseases like leaf spots, leaf blight, chlorosis, necrosis, or shot-hole symptoms on stems and fruits.
The species can be recognized by the conidiophores with unbranched or loosely branched chains of conidia and unique coronate scars (e.g. see image N in illustration on the right). The conidia are elliptical to egg-shaped and around 5-10 µm long with no or 1 septa.
Several strains of plant pathogenic Cladosporium species have also antagonistic properties against unrelated fungal pathogens and even against plant parasitic nematodes, see the page on antagonistic Cladosporium for that aspect.
Teleomorph forms have been described under the genus Davidiella
Type species: Cladosporium herbarum
For taxonomic reviews of the genus see Bensch et al. (2012) and Marin-Felix et al. (2017).
Currently, the following species have been entered into the system:
