- Spegazzinia is also a synonym of the cactus genus Weingartia.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Fungi |
| Division: | Ascomycota |
| Class: | Dothideomycetes |
| Order: | Pleosporales |
| Family: | Didymosphaeriaceae |
| Genus: | Spegazzinia Sacc. (1880) |
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| Spegazzinia ornata Speg. (1880) | |
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Spegazzinia is a genus of widely distributed mitosporic ascomycete fungi in the family Didymosphaeriaceae.As accepted by Wijayawardene et al. 2020.
It was earlier placed in the family Apiosporaceae in 2008. This genus is somewhat related to other lobed or ornamented genera, such as Candelabrum. No information is available regarding health effects, toxicity, or allergenicity. The distinctive spores of Spegazzinia are occasionally identified on spore trap samples. It may also be found in the air by culturable (Andersen) samples if a long enough incubation period is provided so that sporulation occurs. Laboratories have never found this organism growing on indoor environmental surfaces. Natural habitat includes soil and many kinds of trees and plants.
The genus was circumscribed by Pier Andrea Saccardo in 1880, in Rev. Mycol. (Toulouse) vol. 2, page 140. The genus name of Spegazzinia is in honour of Carlo Luigi Spegazzini, (in Spanish Carlos Luis Spegazzini; 1858–1926), an Italian-born Argentinian botanist and mycologist.
Taxonomy
Species
The following species are accepted by Species Fungorum:
- Spegazzinia affinis J. Mena & Cantillo (2017)
- Spegazzinia bromeliacearum S.S. Nascimento & J.D.P. Bezerra (2019)
- Spegazzinia camelliae N. Suwannarach, J. Kumla & S. Lumyong (2021)
- Spegazzinia cruciata Whitton, K.D. Hyde & McKenzie (2012)
- Spegazzinia deightonii (S. Hughes) Subram. (1956)
- Spegazzinia flabellata S.M. Leão & Gusmão (2010)
- Spegazzinia intermedia M.B. Ellis (1976)
- Spegazzinia lobulata Thrower (1954)
- Spegazzinia neosundara Thambug. & K.D. Hyde (2017)
- Spegazzinia parkeri Sivasith. (1974)
- Spegazzinia radermacherae Jayasiri, E.B.G. Jones & K.D. Hyde (2019)
- Spegazzinia subramanianii Bhat (1994)
- Spegazzinia sundara Subram. (1956)
- Spegazzinia tessarthra (Berk. & M.A. Curtis) Sacc. (1886)
- Spegazzinia xanthorrhoeae Subram. (1988)
Former taxa
The following taxa were formally recognised:
- S. lobata (Berk. & Broome) Höhn. (1903) = Sporidesmium lobatum (family Pleosporomycetidae)
- S. ornata Sacc. (1880) = Spegazzinia tessarthra
- S. tessarthra var. deightonii S. Hughes (1953) = Spegazzinia deightonii
- S. trichophila G.F. Atk. (1897) = Isthmospora trichophila (family Microthyriaceae)
References
- Wijayawardene, Nalin; Hyde, Kevin; Al-Ani, Laith Khalil Tawfeeq; Somayeh, Dolatabadi; Stadler, Marc; Haelewaters, Danny; et al. (2020). "Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa". Mycosphere. 11: 1060–1456. doi:10.5943/mycosphere/11/1/8. hdl:10481/61998.
- Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CABI. p. 647. ISBN 978-0-85199-826-8.
- "Testing Lab Analysis: Mold, Legionella, Asbestos, Environmental Microbiology, USP 797, Radon, Lead".
- Burkhardt, Lotte (2022). Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen [Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names] (pdf) (in German). Berlin: Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin. doi:10.3372/epolist2022. ISBN 978-3-946292-41-8. Retrieved January 27, 2022.
- ^ "Spegazzinia – Search Page". www.speciesfungorum.org. Species Fungorum. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
- Bhat DJ. (1994). "Two undescribed species of conidial fungi from forests of western Ghats in southern India". Indian Journal of Forestry. 17: 129–33.
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