Pleospora
{{Short description|Genus of fungi}}
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| image =Pleospora betae spinach, kiemplantenziekte spinazie (1).jpg
| image_caption = Pleospora betae spinach
| taxon = Pleospora
| authority = Rabenh. ex Ces. & De Not.
| type_species = Pleospora herbarum
| type_species_authority = (Pers.) Rabenh. (1857)
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Pleospora is a genus of ascomycete fungi. This genus was originally described by Gottlob Ludwig Rabenhorst in 1857 and was revised by Wehmeyer and Müller. There was an estimated 63 species in 2008. {{As of|2023|August|8}}, the GBIF lists up to 440 species,{{cite web |title=Pleospora Rabenhorst ex Cesati & De Notaris, 1863 |url=https://www.gbif.org/species/2575791 |website=www.gbif.org |access-date=8 August 2023 |language=en}} while Species Fungorum lists about 375 species.{{cite web |title=Species Fungorum - Search Page - Pleospora |url=https://www.speciesfungorum.org/Names/Names.asp |website=www.speciesfungorum.org |access-date=8 August 2023}}
Selected species
{{See also|List of Pleospora species}}
A selected few species are shown here;
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- Pleospora alfalfae
- Pleospora allii, Stemphylium leaf blight
- Pleospora ambigua
- Pleospora bardanae Niessl 1876
- Pleospora betae now Neocamarosporium betae
- Pleospora bjoerlingii
- Pleospora eturmiuna
- Pleospora gaudefroyi, Patouillard, now in genus Decorospora
- Pleospora gigaspora
- Pleospora gracilariae
- Pleospora halophila
- Pleospora herbarum
- Pleospora iqbalii
- Pleospora lamnaria
- Pleospora leptosphaerulinoides
- Pleospora lycopersici
- Pleospora mullerii
- Pleospora paludiscirpi
- Pleospora papaveracea, possible biocontrol for oriental poppy, now in genus Crivellia.
- Pleospora pelagica
- Pleospora pelvetiae
- Pleospora rubicunda
- Pleospora rudis
- Pleospora sedicola
- Pleospora shepherdiae, attacks dead twigs of Crataegus
- Pleospora spartinae
- Pleospora theae
- Pleospora tomatonis
- Pleospora triglochinicola
- Pleospora welwitschiae
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References
Other sources
- [https://doi.org/10.1007%2FBF02051392 S.T. Tilak Two new species of Pleospora from India]
- [http://nomen.at/Pleospora Spp]
External links
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- [https://web.archive.org/web/20080830015255/http://www.biodiversity.ac.psiweb.com/pics/0000308_.htm Photo: Asci of Pleospora herbarum]
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Category:Dothideomycetes genera
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