Acrocalymma

Acrocalymma is a fungal genus in the family Lophiostomataceae. It was circumscribed in 1987 by Australian botanists John L. Alcorn and John Irwin to contain the species A. medicaginis, found to cause crown and root disease of alfalfa (Medicago sativa). The genus name is derived from the Ancient Greek words acros ("at tip") and calymma ("hood").[1] Acrocalymma aquatica, discovered in northern Thailand, was added to the genus in 2012.[2]

Acrocalymma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Ascomycota
Class:
Dothideomycetes
Order:
Pleosporales
Family:
Lophiostomataceae
Genus:
Acrocalymma

Alcorn & J.A.G.Irwin (1987)
Type species
Acrocalymma medicaginis
Alcorn & J.A.G.Irwin (1987)
Species

A. aquatica
A. medicaginis

References
  1. Alcorn JL, Irwin JA (1987). "Acrocalymma medicaginis gen. et sp.nov. causing root and crown rot of Medigo sativa in Australia". Transactions of the British Mycological Society. 88 (2): 163–7. doi:10.1016/s0007-1536(87)80211-5.
  2. Zhang H, Hyde KD, McKenzie EH, Bahkali AH, Zhou D (2013). "Sequence data reveals phylogenetic affinities of Acrocalymma aquatica sp. nov., Aquasubmersa mircensis gen. et sp. nov. and Clohesyomyces aquaticus (freshwater coelomycetes)". Cryptogamie, Mycologie. 33 (3): 333–46. doi:10.7872/crym.v33.iss3.2012.333.


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