Ophiosphaerella

Ophiosphaerella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Dothideomycetes
Order:	Pleosporales
Family:	Phaeosphaeriaceae
Genus:	Ophiosphaerella; Speg. (1909)
Type species
	Ophiosphaerella graminicola; Speg. (1909)
Species
	; ; ; ; ; O. korrae; ; ;

Ophiosphaerella is a genus of fungi in the family Phaeosphaeriaceae. The genus was described by Italian-Argentinian botanist and mycologist Carlos Luigi Spegazzini in 1909.^[1] Several species are pathogens of turfgrass, causing darkly pigmented hyphae on roots known as "dead spot". Ophiosphaerella korrae, , and affect bermudagrass (Cynodon species), while the latter fungus also causes dead spot in buffalo grass (Bouteloua dactyloides). Ophiosphaerella korrae is a cause of necrotic ring spot in creeping red fescue (Festuca rubra).^[2]

References[]

^ Spegazzini C. (1909). "Mycetes Argentinenses. Series IV". Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural Buenos Aires. III. 19 (12): 257–458 (see p. 410).
^ Dernoeden PH. (2000). Creeping Bentgrass Management: Summer Stresses, Weeds and Selected Maladies. John Wiley & Sons. p. 49. ISBN 978-1-57504-143-8.

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[Spegazzini_1909-1] Spegazzini C. (1909). "Mycetes Argentinenses. Series IV". Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural Buenos Aires. III. 19 (12): 257–458 (see p. 410).

[Dernoeden_2000-2] Dernoeden PH. (2000). Creeping Bentgrass Management: Summer Stresses, Weeds and Selected Maladies. John Wiley & Sons. p. 49. ISBN 978-1-57504-143-8.

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