Curreya Explained

Curreya is a genus of fungi in the family Cucurbitariaceae.^[1]

The genus name of Curreya is in honour of Frederick Currey (1819–1881), a British botanist and Secretary of the Linnean Society between 1860 – 1880.^[2]

The genus was circumscribed by Pier Andrea Saccardo in Syll. Fung. Vol.2 on page 651 in 1883.

Species

As accepted by Species Fungorum;^[3]

• Curreya conorum
• Curreya corni
• Curreya insignis
• Curreya peckiana
• Curreya pithyophila
• Curreya rhoina

Former species;^[3]

• C. acaciae = Magnibotryascoma acaciae, Teichosporaceae
• C. austroafricana = Teichospora austroafricana, Teichosporaceae
• C. bambusicola = Epibotrys bambusicola, Dothideomycetes
• C. berberidis = Dictyodothis berberidis, Dothideaceae
• C. excavata = Dictyodothis excavata, Dothideaceae
• C. flotoviana = Mycoporum flotovianum, Mycoporaceae
• C. grandicipis = Teichospora grandicipis, Teichosporaceae
• C. harknessii = Dothiora harknessii, Botryosphaeriaceae
• C. palmincola = Hyalocurreya palmincola, Cookellaceae
• C. pithyophila var. cembrae = Curreya pithyophila
• C. proteae = Teichospora proteae, Teichosporaceae
• C. pusilla = Chaetoplea pusilla, Phaeosphaeriaceae
• C. rehmii = Seimatosporium ribis-alpini, Sporocadaceae
• C. sandicensis = Uleomyces sandicensis, Cookellaceae

External links

• Index Fungorum

Notes and References

1. Lumbsch TH, Huhndorf SM. . December 2007 . Outline of Ascomycota – 2007 . Myconet . 13 . 1–58 . The Field Museum, Department of Botany . Chicago, USA . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090318003134/http://www.fieldmuseum.org/myconet/outline.asp . 2009-03-18 .
2. Book: Burkhardt, Lotte . Eine Enzyklopädie zu eponymischen Pflanzennamen . Encyclopedia of eponymic plant names . Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum, Freie Universität Berlin . 2022 . 978-3-946292-41-8 . pdf . German . Berlin . 10.3372/epolist2022 . January 27, 2022.
3. Web site: Species Fungorum – Search Page – Curreya . www.speciesfungorum.org . 24 July 2023.