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Mycosphaerella Johanson 1885 [1884]

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Johanson
Johanson
1885
1884
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Mycosphaerella Johanson 1885 [1884]
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Mycosphaerella

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Mycosphaerella

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Mycosphaerella Johanson 1885 [1884]

The very large genus Mycosphaerella, typified by M. punctiformis, has long been known to include a diverse range of relatively non-descript sexual morphs that cause leaf spots. This became more obvious as their asexual morphs were explored and determined to belong to numerous genera (Sivanesan 1984, Crous & Braun 2003). Crous et al. (2009b, 2011b) determined that M. punctiformis, now regarded as Ramularia endophylla (Videira et al. 2015a), belongs in Ramularia typified by R. pusilla, thus Mycosphaerella and Ramularia are synonyms. Crous et al. (2009b, 2011b) and others have also determined that most of the 1738 names placed in Mycosphaerella are not congeneric with the type of the genus such that many species have already been placed in segregate genera including Batcheloromyces, Delphinella, Passalora, Pseudocercospora, Stenella, and Pseudocercospora amongst many others (Farr & Rossman 2015). Although Mycosphaerella includes many names, those that are congeneric with the type species are relatively few. Around 225 names in Mycosphaerella have been reported to be morphologically indistinguishable from M. punctiformis (Aptroot 2006) and are thus likely to belong to Ramularia. Given the extreme morphological convergence of the sexual morphs placed in Mycosphaerella and confusion associated with these names, the use of the generic name that has priority, Ramularia, for the species of Mycosphaerella sensu stricto as already reflected in the recent literature (Videira et al. 2015b), is recommended.

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Mycosphaerella Johanson 1885 [1884]
Mycosphaerella Johanson 1885 [1884]
Mycosphaerella Johanson 1885 [1884]
Mycosphaerella Johanson (1885) [1884]
Mycosphaerella Johanson 1885 [1884]
Mycosphaerella Johanson 1885 [1884]
Mycosphaerella Johanson 1885 [1884]
Mycosphaerella Johanson (1885) [1884]
Mycosphaerella Johanson 1885 [1884]
Mycosphaerella Johanson 1885 [1884]
Mycosphaerella Johanson 1885 [1884]
Mycosphaerella Johanson (1885) [1884]
Mycosphaerella Johanson 1885 [1884]
Mycosphaerella Johanson 1885 [1884]
Mycosphaerella Johanson 1885 [1884]
Mycosphaerella Johanson (1885) [1884]
Mycosphaerella Johanson 1885 [1884]
Mycosphaerella Johanson (1885) [1884]
Mycosphaerella Johanson 1885 [1884]
Mycosphaerella Johanson (1885) [1884]
Mycosphaerella Johanson 1885 [1884]
Mycosphaerella Johanson (1885) [1884]
Mycosphaerella Johanson 1885 [1884]
Mycosphaerella Johanson (1885) [1884]
Mycosphaerella Johanson 1885 [1884]
Mycosphaerella Johanson (1885) [1884]
Mycosphaerella Johanson 1885 [1884]
Mycosphaerella Johanson (1885) [1884]
Mycosphaerella Johanson 1885 [1884]
Mycosphaerella Johanson
Mycosphaerella Johanson 1885 [1884]
Mycosphaerella Johanson (1885) [1884]

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taxonomic status
Polyphyletic in its traditional sense, Mycosphaerella has been associated with several morphologically distinct anamorphs, These anamorph genera have mostly proved to form monophyletic clades and the anamorph names have been recommended for use for these clades. Mycosphaerella sensu stricto is Ramularia.

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26 March 1993
23 May 2019
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