Curvularia (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. 158
Curvularia Boedijn 1933
This genus contains several important species of plant pathogenic fungi, above all Curvularia lunata which is widely distributed and causes leaf spot diseases on cereals, grasses and other crops. Others species also have grasses and cereals (Poaceae) as common hosts, but various other plant families may also be attacked. Apart from leaf spot, leaf blight, root rots or damping off are common diseases caused. A number of species are saprobes and some species are opportunistic pathogens of humans.
Curvularia is closely related to the genus Bipolaris and like in that genus the sexual stages have been described as Cochliobolus. The species of Curvularia can be distinguished by the shape and the septation of the conidia. The conidia are elongated, transversely septate and have a dark basal scar. They are often curved at an asymmetrically swollen intermediate cell.
Type species: Curvularia lunata
For a taxonomic review of the genus see Marin-Felix et al. (2017).
Currently, the following species have been entered into the system:
