Calonectria – Facesoffungi number: FoF

Calonectria De Not., Comm. Soc. crittog. Ital. 2(3): 477 (1867)

MycoBank number: MB 746; Index Fungorum number: IF 746; Facesoffungi number: FoF 203 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 157 species with sequence data.

Calonectria was introduced by De Not (1867) and typified by C. daldiniana which was later changed to C. pyrochroa (Rossman 1979). Calonectria species are distinguished by the production of multi-septate, cylindrical conidia, a vesicle with a long stipe derived from conidiophores, and a crimson perithecium (Crous et al. 1994). Species of Calonectria are important plant pathogens on a wide range of hosts (Zhang et al. 2022) (Fig. 1).

Type species – Calonectria pyrochroa (Desm.) Sacc.

Figure 1 – Bayesian phylogenetic tree of Calonectria. The tree was built using concatenated sequences of the genes cal, his, tef-1α and tub2. Bayesian posterior probability values≥0.90 are indicated above the nodes. The sequences generated in this study are highlighted in bold. This tree is rooted with Calonectria pteridis

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