[Dematiaceous Hyphomycetes]
(dematiaceous anamorphic fungi)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:
Informal[Dematiaceous Hyphomycetes] (dematiaceous anamorphic fungi)
PhylumASCOMYCOTA (spore shooters, ascomycete)
KingdomFUNGI (true fungi)
DomainEukaryota (eukaryotes)
LifeBIOTA (living things)
Records of [Dematiaceous Hyphomycetes] (dematiaceous anamorphic fungi) :
1: [Dematiaceous Hyphomycetes] (dematiaceous anamorphic fungi)
16 Mar 2007 OSGR: SU56 51° 20’ N, 1° 10’ W Vice County: Berks (VC 22) England
hairy black dots, erumpent on old, over-wintered flower stem of Sedum telephium
Image 1: Colony - highly enlargedImage 2: Colony - magnifiedImage 3: Colony - magnified (2)Image 4: Squash prep - magnified

Identification Works

AuthorYearTitleSource
Ellis, M.B. 1976 More Dematiaceous Hyphomycetes Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux
Ellis, M.B. 1971 Dematiaceous Hyphomycetes 608pp, Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux

Plant Pathology

() Ellis, M.B. & J.P. 1997 Microfungi on Land Plants: An Identification Handbook 2nd (New Enlarged) edition, 868pp, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd
Moore, W.C. 1959 British Parasitic Fungi 430pp, Cambridge University Press

[Dematiaceous Hyphomycetes] (dematiaceous anamorphic fungi) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

BioInfoBioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 1,871 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for [Dematiaceous Hyphomycetes] (dematiaceous anamorphic fungi)

This is a purely artificial classification (some would call it a "dumping ground") for anamorphic fungi (ie fungi where the stage that produces sexual spores is not formed or is unknown), where the asexual spores (conidia) or the spore-bearing hyphae (conidiophores) are pigmented and where the asexual spores are not formed in a closed body.

Over the years, members have been gradually removed as laboratory cultures have yielded the sexual states. More recently DNA studies have superseded this and the classification will eventually disappear. Nevertheless "dematiaceous hyphomycete" remains a useful descriptive term for the pigmented asexual states of many ascomycetes.

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