Ophiostoma

Ophiostoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Sordariomycetes
Order:	Ophiostomatales
Family:	Ophiostomataceae
Genus:	Ophiostoma Syd. & P. Syd.
Type species
Ophiostoma piliferum (Fr.) Syd. & P. Syd.

Ophiostoma is a genus of fungi within the Ophiostomataceae family.^[1]

Ophiostoma includes the following species:

• Ophiostoma carpenteri Hausner, Eyjólfsdóttir, and Reid, 2003, an ophiostomatoid fungus closely related to Ophiostoma retusum (R.W. Davidson et T.E. Hinds) Hausner et al. named in honor of Dr. Steven E. Carpenter, Ph.D., of Philomath, Oregon, who collected the isolates and provided them to the authors for study.^[2]
• Ophiostoma retusum (R.W. Davidson et T.E. Hinds) Hausner et al.

References

1. ^ Lumbsch, T. H., and S. M. Huhndorf. (December 2007). "Outline of Ascomycota – 2007". Myconet (The Field Museum, Department of Botany, Chicago, USA) 13: 1–58. http://www.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp. 
2. ^ G. Hausner, G. G. Eyjólfsdóttir and J. Reid. 2003. Three new species of Ophiostoma and notes on Cornuvesica falcate. Canadian Journal of Botany, 2003, 81:(1) 40-48, http://mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca/bitstream/1993/2783/1/Hausner_Three_new_sepcies.pdf (2011).

External links

• Ophiostoma at Index Fungorum