Verticillium: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Fungi
- Phylum
- Ascomycota
- Class
- Sordariomycetes
- Order
- Glomerellales
- Family
- Plectosphaerellaceae
- Genus
- Verticillium
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Verticillium
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Verticillium
Verticillium is a genus of fungi in the division Ascomycota, and are an anamorphic form of the family Plectosphaerellaceae. The genus used to include diverse groups comprising saprobes and parasites of higher plants, insects, nematodes, mollusc eggs, and other fungi, thus the genus used to have a wide-ranging group of taxa characterised by simple but ill-defined characters. The genus, currently thought to contain 51 species, may be broadly divided into three ecologically based groups - mycopathogens, entomopathogens, and plant pathogens and related saprotrophs. However, the genus has undergone recent revision into which most entomopathogenic and mycopathogenic isolates fall into a new (unrelated) group called Lecanicillium.
At least five species are known to cause a wilt disease in plants called verticillium wilt: V. dahliae, V. longisporum, V. albo-atrum, V. nubilum, and V. tricorpus. A sixth species, V. theobromae, causes fruit or crown rot, a non-wiliting disease.
...Verticillium in languages:
- Afrikaans
- Verticillium-verwelksiektes
- Czech
- přeslenatka
- Lithuanian
- Menturgrybis
- Swedish
- kransmögelsläktet
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Verticillium alfalfae
- Verticillium candidum
- Verticillium coccosporum
- Verticillium dahliae
- Verticillium discisedum
- Verticillium effusum
- Verticillium glaucum
- Verticillium insectorum
- Verticillium nonalfalfae
- Verticillium pseudohemipterigenum
- Verticillium quaternellum
- Verticillium terrestre
- Verticillium tricorpus
- Verticillium tubercularioides

















































































