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Coniochaeta

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Kingdom
  
Fungi

Class
  
Sordariomycetes

Order
  
Coniochaetales

Division
  
Ascomycota

Subclass
  
Sordariomycetidae

Rank
  
Genus

Coniochaeta All Fungi Fungi of Great Britain and Ireland

Similar
  
Calosphaeria, Ascodesmidaceae, Pseudaleuria, Ascobolus denudatus, Ascobolus carbonarius

Coniochaeta fungi kingdom


The Coniochaeta form a genus of pleomorphic yeasts of the order Coniochaetales and are pathogens of trees. They can take the form of pink to brown colonies, hyphae, condiophores or sclerotia. In 2013, the Lecythophora were merged with the Coniochaeta, following suggestions by Khan et al.

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Ecology

The Coniochaeta have been described as typically associated with wood, water, soil,. However, there is also growing evidence of specialised associations between each species and specific environments, and a suggestion that 4 spored and 8 spored species interact differently with their environments, some species surviving forest fires, which activate their sexual cycle. Other members of the Coniochaeta, most commonly Coniochaeta polymorpha, can cause clinical infections in immunocompromised individuals (Khan et al, 2013), which has increased recent interest in the genus.


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References

Coniochaeta Wikipedia