Aschersonia
| Aschersonia | |
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| Aschersonia disciformis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Sordariomycetes |
| Order: | Hypocreales |
| Family: | Clavicipitaceae |
| Genus: | Aschersonia Mont., 1848 |
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Aschersonia[1] is a genus of fungi in the order Hypocreales and family Clavicipitaceae. The genus name was erected in honour of Paul Friedrich August Ascherson (1834–1913), a German botanist.[2] Species in this genus include entomopathogenic fungi: for example, A. aleyrodis may be used for biological control of whitefly pests.
Species
Mycobank[3] lists the following:
- Aschersonia abnormis
- Aschersonia acutispora
- Aschersonia aleyrodis Webber 1897
- Aschersonia amazonica
- Aschersonia andropogonis
- Aschersonia aurantiaca
- Aschersonia australiensis Henn. 1903
- Aschersonia badia
- Aschersonia basicystis
- Aschersonia blumenaviensis
- Aschersonia brunnea
- Aschersonia caapi
- Aschersonia caespiticia
- Aschersonia calendulina
- Aschersonia calendulina
- Aschersonia carpinicola
- Aschersonia chaetospora
- Aschersonia cinnabarina
- Aschersonia coffeae
- Aschersonia columnifera
- Aschersonia confluens
- Aschersonia conica
- Aschersonia consociata
- Aschersonia crenulata
- Aschersonia crustacea
- Aschersonia crustata
- Aschersonia cubensis Berk. & M.A. Curtis 1868
- Aschersonia disciformis
- Aschersonia duplex
- Aschersonia eugeniae
- Aschersonia fimbriata
- Aschersonia flava
- Aschersonia flavescens
- Aschersonia flavocitrina
- Aschersonia formosensis
- Aschersonia fusispora
- Aschersonia goldiana
- Aschersonia guianensis
- Aschersonia henningsii
- Aschersonia hypocreoidea
- Aschersonia incrassata
- Aschersonia insperata
- Aschersonia intermedia
- Aschersonia jacarandae
- Aschersonia javanica
- Aschersonia javensis
- Aschersonia juruensis
- Aschersonia lauricola
- Aschersonia lecanii
- Aschersonia lecanioides
- Aschersonia luteola
- Aschersonia macrostromatica
- Aschersonia macularis
- Aschersonia marginata
- Aschersonia mellea
- Aschersonia microspora
- Aschersonia minutispora
- Aschersonia murrayae
- Aschersonia napoleonae
- Aschersonia narathiwatensis
- Aschersonia novoguineensis
- Aschersonia oxystoma
- Aschersonia oxystoma
- Aschersonia papillata
- Aschersonia paraensis
- Aschersonia paraphysata
- Aschersonia parasitica
- Aschersonia pediculoides
- Aschersonia philippinensis
- Aschersonia phthiurioides
- Aschersonia pisiformis
- Aschersonia pittieri
- Aschersonia placenta Berk. 1873
- Aschersonia rufa
- Aschersonia samoensis
- Aschersonia sclerotioides
- Aschersonia scutelliformis
- Aschersonia simplex
- Aschersonia spathulata
- Aschersonia spatulata
- Aschersonia suzukii
- Aschersonia tahitensis
- Aschersonia taitensis Mont. (1848) – type species
- Aschersonia tamurai
- Aschersonia tephrosicola
- Aschersonia tephrosiicola
- Aschersonia turbinata
- Aschersonia viridans
- Aschersonia viridula
- Aschersonia zenkeri
Note: other species may now be synonyms placed in similar genera such as Hypocrella.
References
- ^ Montagne JPFC (1848) Sixième Centurie de plantes exotiques nouvelles. Décades I et II. Annales des Sciences Naturelles Botanique. 10: 106–136
- ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. S2CID 246307410. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
- ^ Mycobank Database: Aschersonia
External links
- Roskov Y.; Kunze T.; Orrell T.; Abucay L.; Paglinawan L.; Culham A.; Bailly N.; Kirk P.; Bourgoin T.; Baillargeon G.; Decock W.; De Wever A. (2011). Didžiulis V. (ed.). "Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist". Species 2000: Reading, UK. Retrieved 18 November 2018.