Piedraia hortae Fonseca & Leão, Supplemento 4(Suppl.): 124 (1928). Fig. 21 MycoBank number: MB 267365; Index Fungorum number: IF 267365; Facesoffungi number: FoF 06140. Notes – Piedraia hortae causes black piedra which is an important disease in South America, Asia and Pacific islands. We provide the drawing of Piedraia hortae in Fig. 21. Figure [...]
Piedraia Fonseca & Leão, Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz 21 (suppl. 4): 125 (1928). MycoBank number: MB 4098; Index Fungorum number: IF 4098; Facesoffungi number: FoF 06139; 2 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 2 species with molecular data. Type species – Piedraia hortae Fonseca & Leão. Notes – The genus causes disease of human [...]
Piedraiaceae Viégas ex Cif., Bat. & S. Camposa, Publicações Inst. Micol. Recife 45(1-6): 7 (1956). MycoBank number: MB 82066; Index Fungorum number: IF 82066; Facesoffungi number: FoF 06972, 2 species. Pathogenic on human hair. Sexual morph: Ascostroma with pseodoparenchymatic tissue, vary in size and shape. but usually flat, elongated and with a rough surface, [...]