Camarosporium | |
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Camarosporium spp. spores are ~20 µm long, apple-seed shaped, and often amber-colored | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Fungi |
Division: | Ascomycota |
Class: | Dothideomycetes |
Order: | Pleosporales |
Genus: | Camarosporium Schulzer, 1867[1] |
Type species | |
Camarosporium quaternatum (Hazsl.) Schulzer 1867. | |
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Camarosporium is a genus of fungi belonging to the order Pleosporales,[2] and originally placed in family Coniothyriaceae.[3] It was then placed in the family Camarosporiaceae Wanas., Wijayaw., K.D. Hyde & Crous, 2017 with another genus Camarosporomyces.[4] This has been accepted by Wijayawardene et al. 2020.[5]
The genus has cosmopolitan distribution.[2]
Camarosporium quaternatum (Hazsl.) Schulzer has been found on twigs of Lycium barbarum (Solanaceae family) and also on twigs of Daphne mezereum (in Thymelaeaceae family).[3] In Aleppo, Syria Camarosporium dalmaticum (Thüm.) Zachos & Tzav.-Klon._Thum_Gigante (syn Sphaeropsis dalmatica) causes olive drupe rot disease on Olive trees.[6]