Traversoa Explained

Traversoa is a genus of fungi in the Botryosphaeriaceae family.

The genus was circumscribed by Pier Andrea Saccardo, Hans Sydow and Paul Sydow in Ann. Mycol. vol.11 on page 317 in 1913.

The genus name of Traversoa is in honour of Giovanni Battista Traverso (1878–1955), who was an Italian mycologist and plant pathologist.^[1]

Species

As accepted by Species Fungorum;^[2]

• Traversoa dothiorelloides

Former species;

• T. agaves = Botryodiplodia agaves, Diaporthales family
• T. excipuloides = Botryodiplodia excipuloides, Diaporthales
• T. excipuloides var. distans = Botryodiplodia excipuloides, Diaporthales
• T. gallicola = Botryodiplodia gallicola, Diaporthales

Notes and References

1. 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.
2. Web site: Traversoa - Search Page . www.speciesfungorum.org . Species Fungorum . 27 October 2022.