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Ophiostoma europhioides and Ceratocystis pseudoeurophioides, synonyms of O. piceaperdum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 February 2000

K. JACOBS
Affiliation:
Tree Pathology Co-operative Programme, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 0002, Republic of South Africa
M. J. WINGFIELD
Affiliation:
Tree Pathology Co-operative Programme, Forestry and Agricultural Biotechnology Institute (FABI), Department of Microbiology and Plant Pathology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, 0002, Republic of South Africa
P. W. CROUS
Affiliation:
Department of Plant Pathology, University of Stellenbosch, Private Bag XI, Matieland, 7602, Republic of South Africa
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Abstract

Ophiostoma piceaperdum and O. europhioides are well-known, first described from conifers in Canada. They have been considered to be synonymous. After studying the type material, as well as a collection of isolates of O. piceaperdum and O. europhioides, we have concluded that they cannot be distinguished from each other, so we support the synonymy of O. europhioides and O. piceaperdum and provide a description for the Leptographium anamorph of O. piceaperdum. Ceratocystis pseudoeurophioides has previously been distinguished from O. europhioides based on differences in anamorph morphology. This species has also been reduced to synonymy with O. penicillatum, which was reported to have cucullate ascospores. Later descriptions of O. penicillatum reported it to have allantoid ascospores. We conclude that C. pseudoeurophioides cannot be distinguished from O. piceaperdum and is, therefore, reduced to synonymy with that species.

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© The British Mycological Society 2000

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