Colletotrichum

Colletotrichum
C. lindemuthianum on bean pods
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Phylum:	Ascomycota
Subphylum:	Pezizomycotina
Class:	Sordariomycetes
Order:	Glomerellales
Family:	Glomerellaceae
Genus:	Colletotrichum
Species
Colletotrichum acutatum Colletotrichum agaves Colletotrichum arachidis Colletotrichum capsici Colletotrichum cereale Colletotrichum coccodes Colletotrichum crassipes Colletotrichum dematium Colletotrichum derridis Colletotrichum destructivum Colletotrichum fragariae Colletotrichum gloeosporioides Colletotrichum gossypii Colletotrichum graminicola Colletotrichum higginsianum Colletotrichum kahawae Colletotrichum lindemuthianum Colletotrichum lini Colletotrichum mangenotii Colletotrichum musae Colletotrichum nigrum Colletotrichum orbiculare Colletotrichum pisi Colletotrichum sublineolum Colletotrichum trichellum Colletotrichum trifolii Colletotrichum truncatum ...

Colletotrichum (sexual stage: Glomerella) is a genus of fungi that are obligate symbionts to plants in the form of endophytes. Many of the species in this genus are plant pathogens, although some species may express a mutualistic life-style in non-disease hosts.^[1]

References

1. ^ Rodriguez, Rusty and Regina Redman. (2008). "More than 400 million years of evolution and some plants still can’t make it on their own: plant stress tolerance via fungal symbiosis". Journal of Experimental Botany 59 (5): 1109–14. doi:10.1093/jxb/erm342. PMID 18267941.