Thecaphora

Thecaphora was also proposed for the order of cnidarians usually known as Leptomedusae. Thecaphora is a genus of basidiomycote fungus which contains several species of plant pathogens. The widespread genus contained about 57 species in 2008. and held 61 species in 2020. In 2008, genus Glomosporium and Kochmania were declared synonyms of Thecaphora. Also Sorosporium mohgaoense Chitaley & Yawale became Thecaphora mohgaoensis (Chitaley & Yawale) R.K. Saxena, Wijayaw., D.Q. Dai, K.D. Hyde & P.M. Kirk. The genus Thecaphora contains plant-parasitic microfungi infecting hosts belonging to a range of dicotyledonous families. The species and their current nomenclature were summarised by Vánky et al. (2008), and Vánky (2012). Recently, three new species were described in Crous et al. (2018), Kruse et al. (2018), and Piątek et al. (2021). Thecaphora species are characterised by having spores in balls (or rarely single), generally without sterile cells, and infections are found in a range of di......read more on Wikipedia.