Pestalotiopsidaceae Maharachch. & K.D.Hyde
Pestalotiopsis chiaroscuro Rapley, Steinrucken, Vitelli, Holdom & Y.P.Tan , legitimate, scientific
Crous, P.W., Boers, J., Holdom, D.G. et al. (12 July 2022), Fungal Planet description sheets: 1383 –1435. Persoonia 48: 355, "Colour illustrations." [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Typus. Australia, Queensland, Murgon, S26°08'38.5" E151°49'58.7", on leaf of Sporobolus natalensis (Poaceae), 31 May 2021, J. Mitchell (holotype BRIP 72970a, preserved as metabolically inactive culture, culture ex-type BRIP 72970a; ...)"
  • Text: DNA sequences: from culture ex-type: GenBank OK422510 (ITS), OK422511 (LSU), OK423752 (tub2), OK423753 (tef1a).
  • Text: identifier: MB 842479
  • Text: Fungal Planet description sheet 1429, with authors indicated as “Rapley, D., Vitelli, J.S., Holdom, D., Steinrucken, T.V. & Tan, Y.P.”
  • Etymology: "From chiaroscuro, which refers to the effect of contrasted light and dark. This is a reference to different colonies of the fungus that varied in colour from white to dark grey when grown on culture plates."
AusFungi (2023), AusFungi: - FungI [secondary reference]