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Hymenoscyphus fraxineus, the correct scientific name for the fungus causing ash dieback in Europe

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IMA FUNGUS
Volume 5, Issue 1, Pages 79-80

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INT MYCOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.5598/imafungus.2014.05.01.09

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Chalara fraxinea; Hymenoscyphus pseudoalbidus; Pleomorphic fungi

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Under the rules for the naming of fungi with pleomorphic life-cycles adopted in July 2011, the nomenclaturally correct name for the fungus causing the current ash dieback in Europe is determined to be Hymenoscyphus fraxineus, with the basionym Chalara fraxinea, and Hymenoscyphus pseudoalbidus as a taxonomic synonym of H. fraxineus.

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