Carpenterella (fungus)

Carpenterella is a genus erected for a species of chytrid fungus, Carpenterella molinea, that inhabits the deep vascular xylem tissues of the Moline variety of the American elm tree, causing disease.[3] The genus name recognizes American plant pathologist Clarence Willard Carpenter (1888-1946),[4] who described a similar fungus in relation to chlorotic streak disease of sugar cane in Hawaii.[5][6]

Carpenterella
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Carpenterella

Tehon & H. A. Harris
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C. molinea
Binomial name
Carpenterella molinea
Tehon & H. A. Harris
Synonyms [2]
  • Carpenterophlyctis molinae (Tehon & H. A. Harris) Doweld[1]

References

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  1. ^ Alexander Doweld. 2013. Nomenclatural novelties. Index Fungorum, No. 30, p. 1; http://www.indexfungorum.org/Publications/Index%20Fungorum%20no.30.pdf, accessed 25 Jan 2016.
  2. ^ "Carpenterella molinea". MycoBank. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
  3. ^ Leo R. Tehon & Hubert A. Harris (1941). "A chytrid inhabiting xylem in the Moline elm". Mycologia. 33 (1): 118–129. doi:10.1080/00275514.1941.12020799. JSTOR 3754743.
  4. ^ Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
  5. ^ C. W. Carpenter (1940). "A chytrid in relation to chlorotic streak disease of sugar cane". Hawaiian Planters Record. 44 (1): 19–33.
  6. ^ Pan-Pacific Union: First Pan-Pacific Educational Conference, Honolulu, August 11–24, 1921, Program and Proceedings, p. 13; http://booksnow1.scholarsportal.info/ebooks/oca3/4/programproceedin00panpuoft/programproceedin00panpuoft.pdf.