Lasiodiplodia margaritacea

Lasiodiplodia margaritacea is an endophytic fungus that might be a canker pathogen, specifically for Adansonia gibbosa (baobab). It was isolated from said trees, as well as surrounding ones, in the Kimberley (Western Australia).[1]

Lasiodiplodia margaritacea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Dothideomycetes
Order: Botryosphaeriales
Family: Botryosphaeriaceae
Genus: Lasiodiplodia
Species:
L. margaritacea
Binomial name
Lasiodiplodia margaritacea
Pavlic et al., 2008

References

  1. Pavlic, D.; Wingfield, M. J.; Barber, P.; Slippers, B.; Hardy, G. E. St. J.; Burgess, T. I. (2008). "Seven new species of the Botryosphaeriaceae from baobab and other native trees in Western Australia" (PDF). Mycologia. 100 (6): 851–866. doi:10.3852/08-020. ISSN 0027-5514.

Further reading

  • Van der Linde, Johannes Alwyn, et al. "Lasiodiplodia species associated with dying Euphorbia ingens in South Africa." Southern Forests: a Journal of Forest Science 73.3-4 (2011): 165-173.
  • Machado, Alexandre Reis, Danilo Batista Pinho, and Olinto Liparini Pereira. "Phylogeny, identification and pathogenicity of the Botryosphaeriaceae associated with collar and root rot of the biofuel plant Jatropha curcas in Brazil, with a description of new species of Lasiodiplodia." Fungal Diversity 67.1 (2014): 231-247.
  • Australia, Western. Draginja Pavlic. Diss. University of Pretoria, 2009.


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