Phaeoacremonium

Updated on Oct 12, 2024

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Kingdom Fungi		Rank Genus

Class (Morphological group) Hyphomycetes Phylum Anamorphic fungi (Deuteromycota) Similar Fomitiporia, Botryosphaeriaceae, Neofusicoccum, Botryosphaeria, Cylindrocarpon

Phaeoacremonium is a fungus genus associated with wilt and decline diseases of woody hosts and human infections.

Togninia is the teleomorph (the sexual reproductive stage) of Phaeoacremonium.

Species

Phaeoacremonium aleophilum, associated with esca in mature grapevines and decline in young vines (Petri disease), two types of grapevine trunk disease.

Phaeoacremonium alvesii, a cause of subcutaneous infection of humans

Phaeoacremonium amstelodamense, a cause of human joint infection

Phaeoacremonium australiense, an endophyte of grapevines

Phaeoacremonium griseorubrum, a cause of human fungemia (blood infection)

Phaeoacremonium krajdenii, a cause of subcutaneous infection of humans

Phaeoacremonium parasitica, formerly Phialophora parasitica

Phaeoacremonium scolyti, an endophyte of grapevine, also isolated from bark beetle larvae

Phaeoacremonium sphinctrophorum, from fungal cyst of the human foot

Phaeoacremonium subulatum, an endophyte of grapevine

Phaeoacremonium tardicrescens, from unspecified human medical source

Phaeoacremonium theobromatis, from stem of wild mountain cocoa (Theobroma gileri) in Ecuador

Phaeoacremonium venezuelense, from eumycetoma of the human foot

References

Phaeoacremonium Wikipedia

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