Rhytisma (fungus)

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| image_caption = Rhytisma acerinum

| taxon = Rhytisma (fungus)

| authority = Fr. (1818)

| type_species = Rhytisma acerinum

| type_species_authority = (Pers.) Fr. (1818)

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Rhytisma is a genus of fungi in the Rhytismataceae family commonly known as 'tar spot'. There are about 18 species, which live parasitically in the leaves of deciduous trees.

Species

References

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{{cite book |vauthors=Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA |title=Dictionary of the Fungi |url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryfungit00kirk |url-access=limited |edition=10th |publisher=CABI |location=Wallingford, UK |year=2008 |page=[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryfungit00kirk/page/n612 602] |isbn=978-0-85199-826-8}}

{{cite journal |vauthors=Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM |date=December 2007 |title=Outline of Ascomycota – 2007 |journal=Myconet |volume=13 |pages=1–58 |url=http://archive.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp |publisher=The Field Museum, Department of Botany |location=Chicago, USA }}

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Category:Leotiomycetes

Category:Leotiomycetes genera

Category:Taxa named by Elias Magnus Fries

Category:Taxa described in 1818