List of invasive fungi
Some fungi are considered invasive species in certain parts of the world:
- Amanita muscaria
- Amanita phalloides
- Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis
- Batrachochytrium salamandrivorans
- Carpenterella
- Cryphonectria parasitica – causes chestnut blight
- Cucumispora dikerogammari
- Geosmithia morbida which, in partnership with the walnut twig beetle Pityophthorus juglandis, causes thousand cankers disease[1]
- Heterobasidion irregulare
- Hymenoscyphus fraxineus
- Puccinia horiana – causes Chrysanthemum white rust
- Puccinia psidii
- Pucciniastrum americanum
- Ophiognomonia clavigignenti-juglandacearum
- certain Ophiostoma species which cause Dutch elm disease
- Ophiostoma ulmi
- Ophiostoma himal-ulmi
- Ophiostoma novo-ulmi
- Pseudogymnoascus destructans
- Uredo rangelii
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Chestnut blight from Cryphonectria parasitica
References
- Juzwik, J.; McDermott-Kubeczko, M.; Stewart, T. J.; Ginzel, M. D. (2016-01-19). "First Report of Geosmithia morbida on Ambrosia Beetles Emerged From Thousand Cankers-diseased Juglans nigra in Ohio". Plant Disease. 100 (6): 1238–1238. doi:10.1094/PDIS-10-15-1155-PDN. ISSN 0191-2917.
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