Cephaleuros

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Cephaleuros
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Infestation of Cephaleuros virescens
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Cephaleuros

Kunze, 1827 ex Fries, 1832: 327[1][2]

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Cephaleuros is a genus of parasitic thalloid green algae comprising approximately 14 species. Its common name is red rust. Specimens can reach around 10 mm in size. Dichotomous branches are formed. The alga is parasitic on some important economic plants of the tropics and subtropics such as tea, coffee, mango and guava causing damage limited to the area of algal growth on leaves (algal leaf spot), or killing new shoots, or disfiguring fruit.[3] Members of the genera may also grow with a fungus to form a lichen that does not damage the plants.[3]

Species

The species currently recognised are:

  • C. biolophus
  • C. diffusus
  • C. drouetii
  • C. endophyticus
  • C. expansa
  • C. henningsii
  • C. karstenii
  • C. lagerheimii
  • C. minimus
  • C. parasiticus
  • C. pilosa
  • C. solutus
  • C. tumidae-setae
  • C. virescens

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References

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  1. Kunze, O. 1827. In: Weigelt, Christoph. Surinam Exsic.
  2. Fries, E.[M.] (1832). Systema mycologicum: sistens fungorum ordines, genera et species, huc usque cognitas, quas ad normam methodi naturalis determinavit / disposuit atque descripsit. Volumen III et ultimum. pp. [261]-524, [1]-202 p. ["Index alphabeticus generum, ..."]. Grypiswaldae: Sumptibus Entestii Mauritii, [1].
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