Cooke, M.C. (1878), Praecursor ad monographiam Hendersoniae. Nuovo Giornale Botanico Italiano 10: 26 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "In culmis Sacchari officinarum (Australia)."

Saccardo, P.A. (1884), Sylloge Fungorum: Sylloge Sphaeropsidearum et Melanconiearum. Sylloge Fungorum 3: 319 [basionym]

basionym of: Coniothyrium melasporum (Berk.) Sacc. legitimate

Massee, G.E. (1895), Note by Mr. Massee on the Melanconium-stage of Trichosphaeria Sacchari. Bulletin of miscellaneous information, Royal Gardens, Kew: 86 [secondary reference]

• Text: "Specimens of diseased sugar-cane were sent to Kew in 1878 from Porto Rico for investigation. These were submitted to the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, who gave the MS. name of Darluca melaspora to the fungus present on the canes. The fungus was afterwards very briefly described under Berkeley's name by Cooke in Nuovo Giornale Bot., vol. x., p. 26 (1878), who incorrectly gave the locality as Australia instead of Porto Rico. Saccardo has added to the confusion by changing the name to Coniothyrium melasporum, and in quoting Cooke's diagnosis incorrectly in Syll. Fung., vol. iii., No. 1799."

AusFungi (2019), AusFungi 21 Jan. 2019: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Coniothyrium melasporum (Berk.) Sacc. legitimate

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