Raffaelea

Raffaelea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Fungi
Division: Ascomycota
Class: Sordariomycetes
Order: Ophiostomatales
Family: Ophiostomataceae
Genus: Raffaelea
Arx & Hennebert (1965)
Type species
Raffaelea ambrosiae
Arx & Hennebert (1965)

Raffaelea is a genus of ambrosia fungi in the family Ophiostomataceae. It was cirumscribed by mycologists Josef Adolph von Arx and Grégoire L. Hennebert in 1965 with Raffaelea ambrosiae as the type species.[1]

Laurel wilt is a disease of redbay (Persea borbonia) caused by Raffaelea lauricola. This fungus, harbored in the mycangium of the redbay ambrosia beetle Xyleborus glabratus, is in the form of a budding yeast.[2] Several species also resident in the beetle were described as new to science in 2010: R. ellipticospora, R. fusca, R. subalba, and R. subfusca.[3]

Species

References

  1. von Arx JA, Hennebert GL (1965). "Deux champignons ambrosia". Mycopathologia et Mycologia Applicata. 25 (3-4): 309–15.
  2. Harrington TC, Fraedrich SW, Aghayeva DN (2008). "Raffaelea lauricola, a new ambrosia beetle symbiont and pathogen on the Lauraceae". Mycotaxon. 104: 399–404.
  3. Harrington TC, Aghayeva DN, Fraedrich SW (2010). "New combinations in Raffaelea, and four new species from the redbay ambrosia beetle, Xyleborus glabratus". Mycotaxon. 111: 337–61.


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