Database details : Phyllachorales
Full name: | Phyllachorales UPDATED! |
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Short name: | Phyllachorales |
Version: | Feb 2014 |
Release date: | 2014-02-19 |
Authors/editors: | Cannon P.F. |
Taxonomic coverage: | Fungi - Ascomycota - Sordariomycetes - Phyllachorales |
English name of the group: | Tropical tar-spot fungi |
Number of species | 1,673 |
Number of infraspecific taxa | 0 |
Number of synonyms: | 1,950 |
Number of common names: | 0 |
Total number of names: | 3,623 |
Abstract: | Phyllachorales are mostly biotrophic parasites of angiosperms with strong evidence of co-evolution (particularly with the legumes and grasses); some are necrotrophic and a few saprobic. They occur primarily on the leaves and stems, rarely on the roots and have a widespread, but especially tropical, distribution linked, in the case of the biotrophs, with their hosts. |
Organization: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, UK |
Website: |
http://www.speciesfungorum.org |