IMA Fungus 5(1): 79-80, doi: 10.5598/imafungus.2014.05.01.09
Hymenoscyphus fraxineus, the correct scientific name for the fungus causing ash dieback in Europe
Hans-Otto Baral, Valentin Queloz‡, Tsuyoshi Hosoya‡ ETH Zurich, Forest Pathology and Dendrology, Institute of Integrative Biology (IBZ), Zurich, Switzerland
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Baral H-O, Queloz V, Hosoya T (2014) Hymenoscyphus fraxineus, the correct scientific name for the fungus causing ash dieback in Europe. IMA Fungus 5(1): 79-80. https://doi.org/10.5598/imafungus.2014.05.01.09 |  |
Abstract
Under the rules for the naming of fungi with pleomorphic life-cycles adopted in July 2011, the nomenclaturally correct name for the fungus causing the current ash dieback in Europe is determined to be Hymenoscyphus fraxineus, with the basionym Chalara fraxinea, and Hymenoscyphus pseudoalbidus as a taxonomic synonym of H. fraxineus.
Keywords
Chalara fraxinea, Hymenoscyphus pseudoalbidus, Pleomorphic fungi