Curvularia Boedijn, Bull. Jard. bot. Buitenz, 3 Sér. 13(1): 123 (1933).

MycoBank number: MB 7847; Index Fungorum number: IF 7847; Facesoffungi number: FoF 00510; 165 species (Species Fungorum 2020), 79 species with molecular data.

Type speciesCurvularia lunata (Wakker) Boedijn, Bull. Jard. bot. Buitenz, 3 Sér. 13(1): 127 (1933).

Acrothecium lunatum Wakker, in Wakker & Went, De Ziektan van het Suikerriet op Java: 196 (1898).

Notes – The asexual genus Curvularia is an important pathogen in humans and plants. Curvularia has morphological similarities to Bipolaris (Sivanesan 1987) in having short, slightly curved conidia showing intermediate conidial characters between these two genera. The sexual morph was previously known in Pseudocochliobolus (morphology see Seifert et al. 2011, Wijayawardene et al. 2018, outline).