Johnalcornia – Facesoffungi number: FoF 00524

Johnalcornia Y.P. Tan & R.G. Shivas, in Tan, Madrid, Crous & Shivas, Australas. Pl. Path. 43(6): 592 (2014).

MycoBank number: MB 807731; Index Fungorum number: IF 807731; Facesoffungi number: FoF 00524; 1 morphological species (Species Fungorum 2020), 1 species with molecular data.

Type species – Johnalcornia aberrans (Alcorn) Y.P. Tan & R.G. Shivas, in Tan, Madrid, Crous & Shivas, Australas. Pl. Path. 43(6): 592 (2014).

≡ Bipolaris aberrans Alcorn, Mycotaxon 39: 364 (1990).

Notes – Johnalcornia was introduced for Bipolaris aberrans (= Johnalcornia aberrans). Johnalcornia is phylogenetically related to Bipolaris, Curvularia and Porocercospora and was accepted as a separate genus in Pleosporaceae (Tan et al. 2014). Johnalcornia differs from Porocercospora in having distinct conidia-like chlamydospores and thick-walled, geniculate conidiophores, with conidiogenous cells that have conspicuous scars (morphology see Tan et al. 2014)

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