Cladophialophora
Cladophialophora is a genus of fungi in the family Herpotrichiellaceae. It has 35 species. The genus contains black yeast-like fungi, some of which are species of important medical significance. Cladophialophora bantiana causes the rare brain disease cerebral phaeohyphomycosis. Cladophialophora carrionii is a common cause of chromoblastomycosis in semi-arid climates. Some of the species are endophytes–associating with plants. For example, Cladophialophora yegresii is a cactus endophyte, which is sometimes introduced into humans via cactus spines.
Taxonomy
The genus was proposed in 1980 by Italian-born Venezuelan microbiologist and mycologist Dante Borelli. The type species was assigned to Cladophialophora ajelloi, which was isolated from a Ugandan case of chromomycosis.Species
- Cladophialophora abundans
- Cladophialophora arxii
- Cladophialophora australiensis
- Cladophialophora bantiana
- Cladophialophora boppii
- Cladophialophora cabanerensis
- Cladophialophora carrionii
- Cladophialophora chaetospira
- Cladophialophora cladoniae
- Cladophialophora devriesii
- Cladophialophora emmonsii
- Cladophialophora eucalypti
- Cladophialophora exuberans
- Cladophialophora floridana
- Cladophialophora hawksworthii
- Cladophialophora hostae
- Cladophialophora humicola
- Cladophialophora immunda
- Cladophialophora matsushimae
- Cladophialophora megalosporae
- Cladophialophora minutissima
- Cladophialophora modesta
- Cladophialophora multiseptata
- Cladophialophora mycetomatis
- Cladophialophora normandinae
- Cladophialophora parmeliae
- Cladophialophora potulentorum
- Cladophialophora psammophila
- Cladophialophora pseudocarrionii
- Cladophialophora pucciniophila
- Cladophialophora samoensis
- Cladophialophora saturnica
- Cladophialophora scillae
- Cladophialophora subtilis
- Cladophialophora sylvestris
- Cladophialophora tortuosa
- Cladophialophora tumbae
- Cladophialophora tumulicola
- ''Cladophialophora yegresii''