Elsinoe Racib. [as ‘Elsinoë’], Parasit. Alg. Pilze Java’s (Jakarta) 1: 14 (1900).
MycoBank number: MB 1764; Index Fungorum number: IF 1764; Facesoffungi number: FoF 05846; 194 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), >75 species with molecular data.
Type species – Elsinoe canavaliae Racib.
Notes – Elsinoe was erected by Raciborski (1900) with E. canavaliae as the type species. Elsinoe species are significant phytopathogens typically associated with scab and spot anthracnose diseases in economically important crops and forest plants (Fan et al. 2017, Zhao et al. 2020, Ujat et al. 2023). Members of Elsinoe are characterized by usually causing scab-like blemishes with multi-loculate pseudoascostromata containing 3–8 asci inside each locule, asci bitunicate, fissitunicate, saccate to globose with eight hyaline, oblong or fusiform, septate ascospores. The asexual morph takes the form of the acervular coelomycetous Sphaceloma, characterized by monophialidic to polyphialidic conidiogenous cells and hyaline, ellipsoid, aseptate conidia (Jayawardena et al. 2014). Currently, this genus records a total of 202 epithets (https://www.speciesfungorum.org, November 2024), out of which approximately 85 species have associated molecular data (Hongsanan et al. 2020, Pham et al. 2021, Pem et al. 2024). More species will continue to be described due to the backbone phylogeny for this genus has been constructed based on sequences from ITS, LSU, rpb2, and tef1-α genes (Fan et al. 2017, Jayawardena et al. 2019).
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