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Cochliobolus
Sign in to saveThe fungal genus Cochliobolus includes 19 species, it includes some plant pathogenic species such as Cochliobolus heterostrophus. A lot of former Cochliobolus species were transferred to either Curvularia or Bipolaris genera.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomFungi
- PhylumAscomycota
- ClassDothideomycetes
- OrderPleosporales
- FamilyPleosporaceae
Habitatmarine
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 5
- With media
- 4
- Family
- Pleosporaceae
- Collections
- NY, BPI, CEPLAC
- Recorded in
- United States, Pakistan, Brasil
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Pleosporaceae
- Image
- Cochliobolus heterostrophus.jpg
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- Category:Cochliobolus
- taxon name
- Cochliobolus
- taxon rank
- genus
- Commons category
- Cochliobolus
- taxonomic type
- Cochliobolus heterostrophus
- taxon author citation
- Drechsler
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Heterothallism and homothallism
- Species
- See also
- References
The fungal genus Cochliobolus includes 19 species, it includes some plant pathogenic species such as Cochliobolus heterostrophus. A lot of former Cochliobolus species were transferred to either Curvularia or Bipolaris genera.
Cochliobolus heterostrophus is known from "southern corn blight" which affects corn and maize.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cochliobolus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.