Diaporthaceae
Diaporthe australafricana Crous & Van Niekerk , legitimate, scientific
Niekerk, J.M. van, Groenewald, J.Z., Farr, D.F., Fourie, P.H., Halleen, F. & Crous, P.W. (2005), Reassessment of Phomopsis species on grapevines. Australasian Plant Pathology 34: 33 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "Specimen examined. South Africa, Western Cape Province, Stellenbosch, on Riesling grapevines, Nov. 1997, L. Mostert, HOLOTYPE specimen PREM 56458, ex-type culture STE-U 2655, CBS 113487."
  • Text: Recorded from Australia [location and state not provided] on the basis of a culture R.W.A. Scheper, on Vitis vinifera (STE-U 2676).
  • Text: DNA sequence from Australian collection: Genbank AF 230760 (ITS).
  • Etymology: "Referring to its known distribution in Australia and Africa."
Gomes, R.R., Glienke, C., Videira, S.I.R., Lombard, L., Groenewald, J.Z. & Crous, P.W. (28 March 2013), Diaporthe: a genus of endophytic, saprobic and plant pathogenic fungi. Persoonia 31: 17 [secondary reference]
  • Comment: The ex-type culture is incorrectly cited as "Australia, on Vitis vinifera, 1 July 1995, R.W.A. Schepers [sic] (ex-type culture CBS 111886 = CPC 2676)". The other specimen cited "South Africa, on V. vinifera, 1 Nov. 1997, L. Mostert (CBS 113487 = CPC 2655)" is the ex-type culture.
AusFungi (2023), AusFungi: - FungI [secondary reference]