Distocercospora

Distocercospora is a genus of plant-pathogenic fungi in the family Mycosphaerellaceae. The genus was circumscribed in 1988 with Distocercospora pachyderma as the type species in 1988.^[1]

Distocercospora
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Fungi
Division:	Ascomycota
Class:	Dothideomycetes
Order:	Capnodiales
Family:	Mycosphaerellaceae
Genus:	Distocercospora N.Pons & B.Sutton (1988)
Type species
Distocercospora pachyderma (Syd. & P.Syd.) N.Pons & B.Sutton (1988)

They are distributed on the islands of Japan, Micronesia and Polynesia.^[2]

Species

As accepted by Species Fungorum;^[3]

• Distocercospora africana Crous & U. Braun (1994)
• Distocercospora indica N.K. Verma & A.N. Rai (2014)
• Distocercospora pachyderma (Syd. & P. Syd.) N. Pons & B. Sutton (1988)

Former species,

• D. livistonae U. Braun & C.F. Hill (2006) = Exosporium livistonicola, Ascomycota