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Deuteromycota
(redirected from Mitosporic)

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Deuteromycota /Deu·tero·my·co·ta/ (-mi-ko´tah) the Fungi Imperfecti; a large heterogeneous group of fungi, ordinarily treated as a division, whose sexual stage does not exist or has not yet been discovered; subclassification is in form-classes, form-orders, etc., until their sexual stage is identified.
Deuteromycota
the phylum of fungi known as Fungi Imperfecti, containing Cryptococcus, Candida and some Microsporum and Trichophyton spp.
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The phylogenetic species concept has led to a better understanding of the lineage of pathogenic fungi, especially for the mitosporic fungi, which have no known sexual stage.
Molecular Principles of Fungal Pathogenesis by Reiss, Errol / Emerging Infectious Diseases
The species is not likely to be confused with other parasitic species of mitosporic fungi on Diospyros in the USA.
Fusicladium levieri, a fungal parasite of persimmon, found in Indiana by Ruhl, Gail / Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science
 
 
 
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