Carpenterella (fungus)

Carpenterella is a genus erected for a species of chytrid fungus, Carpenterella molinea, that inhabits the deep vascular xylem tissues of the Moline variety of the American elm tree, causing disease.[3] The genus name recognizes plant pathologist Clarence Willard Carpenter, who described a similar fungus in relation to chlorotic streak disease of sugar cane in Hawaii.[4][5]

Carpenterella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Fungi
Division:
Chytridiomycota
Class:
Chytridiomycetes
Order:
Synchytriales
Family:
Synchytriaceae
Genus:
Carpenterella

Tehon & H. A. Harris
Species:
C. molinea
Binomial name
Carpenterella molinea
Tehon & H. A. Harris
Synonyms [1]
  • Carpenterophlyctis molinae (Tehon & H. A. Harris) Doweld[2]

References
  1. "Carpenterella molinea". MycoBank. Retrieved 25 January 2016.
  2. Alexander Doweld. 2013. Nomenclatural novelties. Index Fungorum, No. 30, p. 1; http://www.indexfungorum.org/Publications/Index%20Fungorum%20no.30.pdf, accessed 25 Jan 2016.
  3. Leo R. Tehon & Hubert A. Harris (1941). "A chytrid inhabiting xylem in the Moline elm". Mycologia. 33 (1): 118–129. doi:10.1080/00275514.1941.12020799. JSTOR 3754743.
  4. C. W. Carpenter (1940). "A chytrid in relation to chlorotic streak disease of sugar cane". Hawaiian Planters Record. 44 (1): 19–33.
  5. Pan-Pacific Union: First Pan-Pacific Educational Conference, Honolulu, August 11–24, 1921, Program and Proceedings, p. 13; http://booksnow1.scholarsportal.info/ebooks/oca3/4/programproceedin00panpuoft/programproceedin00panpuoft.pdf.


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