Corticium penicillatum

Corticium penicillatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Phylum:	Basidiomycota
Subphylum:	Agaricomycotina
Class:	Agaricomycetes
Subclass:	incertae sedis
Order:	incertae sedis
Family:	incertae sedis
Genus:	Corticium
Species:	C. penicillatum
Binomial name
Corticium penicillatum Petch (1925)

Corticium penicillatum is a species of fungus in the class Agaricomycetes. It is a corticioid fungus and a plant pathogen, the causal agent of coconut thread blight, a leaf disease of coconuts.The species was originally described from Papua New Guinea in 1925 and has since been reported from Vanuatu, Fiji, and the Solomon Islands.^[1] Corticium penicillatum has never been redescribed or reviewed and is unlikely to be a species of Corticium in the modern sense.

External links

Index Fungorum
USDA ARS Fungal Database

References

1. ^ Dadant R. (1953). "Corticium penicillatum: thread blight du cocotier". Revue de Mycologie 18 (suppl. 1): 1–4.  http://horizon.documentation.ird.fr/exl-doc/pleins_textes/pleins_textes_5/b_fdi_10-11/11718.pdf