Spegazzinia
{{Short description|Genus of fungi}}
:Spegazzinia is also a synonym of the cactus genus Weingartia.
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| image = Spegazzinia tessarthra.jpg
| image_caption = Spegazzinia tessarthra
| taxon = Spegazzinia
| authority = Sacc. (1880)
| type_species = Spegazzinia ornata
| type_species_authority = Speg. (1880)
| subdivision = {{center|See text}}
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Spegazzinia is a genus of widely distributed mitosporic ascomycete fungi in the family Didymosphaeriaceae.As accepted by Wijayawardene et al. 2020.
It was earlier placed in the family Apiosporaceae in 2008. This genus is somewhat related to other lobed or ornamented genera, such as Candelabrum. No information is available regarding health effects, toxicity, or allergenicity. The distinctive spores of Spegazzinia are occasionally identified on spore trap samples. It may also be found in the air by culturable (Andersen) samples if a long enough incubation period is provided so that sporulation occurs. Laboratories have never found this organism growing on indoor environmental surfaces. Natural habitat includes soil and many kinds of trees and other plants.{{cite web | url=https://www.emlab.com/app/fungi/Fungi.po?event=fungi&type=secondary&species=113&name=Spegazzinia | title=Testing Lab Analysis: Mold, Legionella, Asbestos, Environmental Microbiology, USP 797, Radon, Lead }}
The genus was circumscribed by Pier Andrea Saccardo in 1880, in Rev. Mycol. (Toulouse) vol. 2, page 140. The genus name of Spegazzinia is in honour of Carlo Luigi Spegazzini, (in Spanish Carlos Luis Spegazzini; 1858–1926), an Italian-born Argentinian botanist and mycologist.{{cite book | last=Burkhardt | first=Lotte | title=Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen |trans-title=Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names | publisher=Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin | year=2022 | isbn=978-3-946292-41-8 | url=https://doi.org/10.3372/epolist2022|format=pdf |language=German |location=Berlin | doi=10.3372/epolist2022 |access-date=January 27, 2022}}
Taxonomy
= Species =
The following species are accepted by Species Fungorum:{{cite web |title=Spegazzinia – Search Page |url=http://www.speciesfungorum.org/Names/Names.asp?strGenus=Spegazzinia |website=www.speciesfungorum.org |publisher=Species Fungorum |access-date=1 November 2022}}
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- Spegazzinia affinis {{Au|J. Mena & Cantillo (2017)}}
- Spegazzinia bromeliacearum {{Au|S.S. Nascimento & J.D.P. Bezerra (2019)}}
- Spegazzinia camelliae {{Au|N. Suwannarach, J. Kumla & S. Lumyong (2021)}}
- Spegazzinia cruciata {{Au|Whitton, K.D. Hyde & McKenzie (2012)}}
- Spegazzinia deightonii {{Au|(S. Hughes) Subram. (1956)}}
- Spegazzinia flabellata {{Au|S.M. Leão & Gusmão (2010)}}
- Spegazzinia intermedia {{Au|M.B. Ellis (1976)}}
- Spegazzinia lobulata {{Au|Thrower (1954)}}
- Spegazzinia neosundara {{Au|Thambug. & K.D. Hyde (2017)}}
- Spegazzinia parkeri {{Au|Sivasith. (1974)}}
- Spegazzinia radermacherae {{Au|Jayasiri, E.B.G. Jones & K.D. Hyde (2019)}}
- Spegazzinia subramanianii {{Au|Bhat (1994)}}
- Spegazzinia sundara {{Au|Subram. (1956)}}
- Spegazzinia tessarthra {{Au|(Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Sacc. (1886)}}
- Spegazzinia xanthorrhoeae {{Au|Subram. (1988)}}
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= Former taxa =
The following taxa were formally recognised:
- S. lobata {{Au|(Berk. & Broome) Höhn. (1903)}} = Sporidesmium lobatum (family Pleosporomycetidae)
- S. ornata {{Au|Sacc. (1880)}} = Spegazzinia tessarthra
- S. tessarthra var. deightonii {{Au|S. Hughes (1953)}} = Spegazzinia deightonii
- S. trichophila {{Au|G.F. Atk. (1897)}} = Isthmospora trichophila (family Microthyriaceae)
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Category:Taxa named by Pier Andrea Saccardo
Category:Taxa described in 1880
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