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Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. 1890

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Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. 1890
Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. 1890
Nel, W. J.; Duong, T. A.; Wingfield, B. D.; Wingfield, M. J.; de Beer, Z. W. 2018: A new genus and species for the globally important, multihost root pathogen Thielaviopsis basicola. Plant Pathology 67(4): 871-882.

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Exotic
Present
New Zealand
Political Region
Anon
Present in NZ as a disease of kumara, first recorded 1947.

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Ellis & Halst.
Ellis & Halst.
Halsted, B.D. 1890: Some fungous diseases of the sweet potato. New Jersey Agricultural College Experiment Station, Bulletin. 76.
1890
14
ICN
Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. 1890
NJ, USA
species
Ceratocystis fimbriata

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Fungi
Ascomycota
Sordariomycetes
Microascales
Ceratocystidaceae
Ceratocystis
fimbriata

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Cooper, JA; Johnston, PR; Weir, BS 2026: Taxonomic concepts of the NZFUNGI database.

Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. 1890

The name Ceratocystis fimbriata has been applied to various plant pathogenic fungi of different host plants since its description in 1890. It is now considered to be restricted to cause disease of only kumara (Ipomoea batatas). Diseases other plants can be attributed to other Ceratocystis species, for example kiwifruit is the host of three of species: Ceratocystis manginecans, C. atlantica, and C. alfenasii, none of which are present in New Zealand. PDD specimens of 'C. fimbriata' from Colocasia in the pacific islands need to be re-examined. [BSW]
Dingley, J.M. 1969: Records of plant diseases in New Zealand. New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Bulletin. 192.

Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. 1890

Slade (1960) described black rot caused by Ceratocystis fimbriata as a disease of tubers and of shoot cuttings of kumara (Ipomoea batatas.) He emphasised the severity of the disease in the Auckland Province and stated that although it was first recorded at Kaitaia in 1947 it had already curtailed the growing of kumaras on Matakana Island, Bay of Plenty. He recorded it from Gisborne. In recent years, by the maintenance of strict crop hygiene, especially in the cutting beds, the disease has been successfully controlled. In the Auckland Province the disease is of considerable economic importance.
Harrington, T. C.; Ferreira, M. A.; Somasekhara, Y. M.; Vickery, Jenna; Mayers, Chase G. 2024: An expanded concept of Ceratocystis manginecans and five new species in the Latin American clade of Ceratocystis. Mycologia 116(1): 184-212.

Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. 1890

The type species for the genus is now restricted to a widely distributed strain that causes a black rot ofsweet potato, Ipomoea batatas. Our isolate C1421(CBS 114723, dried specimen BPI 843729; TABLE 1)from North Carolina, USA, was designated as the ex-epitype culture (Marincowitz et al. 2020). The Ipomoea strain is uniquely pathogenic to Ipomoea and has very limited genetic variation across its known range in eastern USA, Hawaii, New Zealand,and Asia (Engelbrecht and Harrington 2005; Li et al.2016). The disease was first recognized in the eastern USA, with symptoms of the disease reported in themid-1800s (Li et al. 2016), but the pathogen is most closely related to Ecuadorian strains of Ceratocystis from Theobroma, Schizolobium, and Hevea (FIG. 1)and to C. fimbriatomima, which was described from Venezuela (Van Wyk et al. 2009). In general, female mating testers of the Ipomoea strain do not cross well with other isolates, and the isolates from Ecuador did not cross with the Ipomoea tester strain (TABLE 2)

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Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. 1890
Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. 1890
Barnes, I.; Fourie, A. et al. (2018)
Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. 1890
Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. (1890)
Brien, R.M.; Dingley, J.M. (1951)
Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. 1890
Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst.
Cooper, JA; Johnston, PR; Weir, BS (2026)
Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. 1890
Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. 1890
de Beer, Z.W.; Duong, T.A. et al. (2014)
Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. 1890
Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. (1890)
Dingley, J.M. (1969)
Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. 1890
Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. (1890)
Engelbrecht, C.J.B.; Harrington, T.C. (2005)
Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. 1890
Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. (1890)
Halsted, B.D. (1890)
Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. 1890
Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. 1890
Harrington, T. C.; Ferreira, M. A. et al. (2024)
Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. 1890
Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. 1890
Harrington, T. C.; Kazmi, M. R.; Al-Sadi, A. M.; Ismail, S. I. (2014)
Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. 1890
Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. (1890)
Johnson, J.A.; Harrington, T.C.; Engelbrecht, C.J.B. (2006)
Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. 1890
Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. (1890)
Kirk, T.W. (1907)
Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. 1890
Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. (1890)
Lethwaite, S.L.; Wright, P.J. (2009)
Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. 1890
Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. 1890
Marincowitz, S.; Barnes, I.; de Beer, Z.W.; Wingfield, M.J. (2020)
Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. 1890
Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. 1890
Nel, W. J.; Duong, T. A. et al. (2018)
Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. 1890
Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. 1890
Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. 1890
Oliveira, Leonardo S. S.; Harrington, Thomas C. et al. (2015)
Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. 1890
Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. 1890
Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. (1890)
Pennycook, S.R. (1989)
Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. 1890
Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. (1890)
Pennycook, S.R.; Galloway, D.J. (2004)
Ceratostomella fimbriata (Ellis & Halst.) J.A. Elliott 1923
Ceratostomella fimbriata (Ellis & Halst.) J.A. Elliott (1923)
Brien, R.M.; Dingley, J.M. (1951)
Ceratostomella fimbriata (Ellis & Halst.) J.A. Elliott 1923
Ceratostomella fimbriata (Ellis & Halst.) J.A. Elliott (1923)
Elliott, J.A. (1923)
Ceratostomella fimbriata (Ellis & Halst.) J.A. Elliott 1923
Ceratostomella fimbriata (Ellis & Halst.) J.A. Elliott
Nel, W. J.; Duong, T. A. et al. (2018)
Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. 1890
Ceratostomella fimbriata (Ellis & Halst.) J.A. Elliott 1923
Ceratostomella fimbriata (Ellis & Halst.) J.A. Elliott (1923)
Slade, D.A. (1960)
Endoconidiophora fimbriata (Ellis & Halst.) R.W. Davidson 1935
Endoconidiophora fimbriata (Ellis & Halst.) R.W. Davidson 1935
de Beer, Z.W.; Duong, T.A. et al. (2014)
Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. 1890
Endoconidiophora fimbriata (Ellis & Halst.) R.W. Davidson 1935
Endoconidiophora fimbriata (Ellis & Halst.) R.W. Davidson 1935
Nel, W. J.; Duong, T. A. et al. (2018)
Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. 1890

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Ceratocystis fimbriata Ellis & Halst. 1890
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Gisborne
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New Zealand
Northland
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Niue
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Papua New Guinea
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Samoa
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taxonomic status
The original description of Ceratocystis fimbriata was from sweet potato in the USA. Analyses of DNA sequences have shown that the fungus treated as C. fimbriata in various studies and from various countries and host plants, represent a species complex that includes many different cryptic species. The name C. fimbriata should be restricted to the fungus from sweet potato and to other isolates belonging to the same phylogenetic species. Epitypified by Marincowitz et al. 2020.
de Beer, Z.W.; Duong, T.A.; Barnes, I.; Wingfield, B.D.; Wingfield, M.J. 2014: Redefining Ceratocystis and allied genera. Studies in Mycology 79: 187-219.

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