Crous, Hernández-Restrepo & Groenewald & Crous, 2015

Hernández-Restrepo, Margarita, Groenewald, Johannes Z. & Crous, Pedro W., 2015, Neocordana gen. nov., the causal organism of Cordana leaf spot on banana, Phytotaxa 205 (4), pp. 229-238 : 233

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.205.4.2

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03D187C7-FFCA-9A5E-FF7C-FBB7CAAE3FA3

treatment provided by

Felipe

scientific name

Crous
status

ord. nov.

Neocordana M. Hern. View in CoL View at ENA -Rest. & Crous , gen. nov. MycoBank MB811105

Etymology: Neo - new, Cordana - asexual genus, in reference to their similarity with the genus Cordana .

Colonies effuse, grey to brown, hairy. Mycelium superficial and immersed, on the agar and on the plant cuticle, hyphae, smooth, septate, hyaline becoming brown with age. Conidiophores differentiated, erect, straight to flexuous, brown at the base becoming paler toward the apex, smooth, swollen basal cell beneath the host epidermis. Conidiogenous cells holoblastic, sympodial, denticulate, cylindrical to obclavate, terminal and intercalary, smooth, pale brown to brown. Conidia dry, solitary, pale brown, 1-sepate, broadly ellipsoidal, oblong, obovoid, obclavate to pyriform, smooth, thick-walled, with a visible darker, thickened hilum. Appressoria present.

Type species:— Neocordana musae (Zimm.) M. Hern. -Rest. & Crous .

Sexual morph: Unknown.

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