Database details
| Full name: | Phyllachorales |
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| Short name: | Phyllachorales |
| Version: | 8.0, Sep 2008 |
| Release date: | 2008-09-05 |
| Authors/editors: | P.F. Cannon |
| Taxonomic coverage: | Fungi - Ascomycota - Ascomycetes - Phyllachorales |
| English name of the group: | Tropical tar-spot fungi |
| Number of species: | 1,304 |
| Number of infraspecific taxa: | 131 |
| Number of synonyms: | 1,734 |
| Number of common names: | 0 |
| Total number of names: | 3,169 |
| Abstract: | Phyllachorales are mostly biotrophic parasites of angiosperms with strong evidence of co-evolution (particularly with the legumes and grasses); some are necrotrophic and a few saprobic. They occur primarily on the leaves and stems, rarely on the roots and have a widespread, but especially tropical, distribution linked, in the case of the biotrophs, with their hosts. |
| Organization: | CABI |
| Website: |
http://www.speciesfungorum.org |