AuthorWearn, J.
Year2009
TitlePithomyces chartarum - a fungus on the up?
TypePaper
SourceField Mycology Vol 10 (1): 36-37.
IllustrationsColour photomicrograph
Review (by Malcolm Storey)This dematiaceous hyphomycete is becoming more common in Europe and the UK as the climate ameliorates. Pithomyces chartarum seems to thrive as a saprobe, an endophyte, and even on occasions as a mammalian pathogen.

Notes & PurposeStatusTaxonEnglishClassification
For identificationCurrentPithomyces chartaruma dematiaceous anamorphic fungusFungi: Pleosporales: Didymosphaeriaceae
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